The world as we know it: How much do we know it? What are the limits of knowledge? These are the simplest philosophical questions that come whispering out of college dorm rooms among the millions of other questions that concern our epistemological status as human beings.
Patrick Turk is a collage artist that wonders about our place in the world that we inhabit and also our place in parallel universes. As humans it is difficult to grasp the profundity of a notion such as a parallel universe or the basic ideas behind quantum mechanics.
I do not pretend that Patrick Turk is a mad scientist concerned with creating a dimension that we can never grasp. But I do feel that Mr. Turk is creating a world in his collages that is generally only touched by people under the influence of reality enhancing substances.
With the abundance of repetitious imagery in Turk's collages, there is a mad order to the dimensions we will never see and can only create with theories. And in the obsessive circles of imagery there is a beauty not unlike the paintings of Alex Grey or any other other artist that dwells on the bright side of post hippiedom.
