User:Gooseshaman

Born (April 11, 1969 in New Jersey)

David Twidle is a visual artist and poet known amongst a small number of friends and colleagues in the arts community. His art is multiplied by his visionary output and all its conceptual levels of realization. He works in different mediums, including murals. Primarily he uses digital mediums to create digital prints, as well as many traditional drawings and sketches. His work incorporates a universe of symbolism, including but not limited to UFO's, extraterrestrial life forms, spiritual mediums, other worldly beings and also multiple forms of abstraction and architectonic forms. His work shows influences from both high and low cultures, tattoo art, folk art, grafitti, shamanism, architectural drawings, modern art, religion and philosophy, particularly the ideas of Lacan and Guattari.

He has been influenced by a host of artists and genres, including graffiti and many modern schools of art like Bauhaus, Abstract Expressionism and Neo-Expressionism,, but in particular has taken much from the ideas of Paul Laffoley whom he interviewed in his studio in 2006. He was particularly influenced by Thomas Lanigan Schmidt and Gary Stephan at the Master of Fine Arts Program at the School of VIsual Arts. He completed his MFA there in 1999 and wrote his thesis on the "Artist as a Shaman". He also likes the ideas of Joseph Nechvatal and John Perry Barlow of the EFF regarding the interface of art with information technology.

He has also showed with artists from the UFO community, including David Huggins, Ionel Talpazan and Melissa Reed. However, he has also been associated with other more mainstream/emerging artists like Brian Belott, Katherine Bernhardt and Lance de los Reyes in his relationships within the arts community en toto.

He once coined a term on Urban Dictionary as a ruse to see if it would work and it did. The term is "Twidled".

He is interested in the idea of the Bauhauroque and the end of Postmodernism on September 11th. He sees his work, especially his architectural and sculptural ideas as somehow related to an idea of a fusion of Baroque and Bauhaus. In addition, he hopes to one day create monumental sculptures around the world. He executed a large mural project for the City of New Haven Public Schools at the John C. Daniels School, designed by Davis, Brody Bond Aedas. The mural represents in two dimensions what he envisions potentially in three dimensions and was created to inspire students to visualize new worlds of creation.

Now he is focusing on the implications of internet network security and is trying to incorporate this idea conceptually into his pastiche of images.