Don Sigl www.drs-fineartphoto.com
Art is a form of possession. It has never really been an obsessive thing for me. I can put it down… escape from it for periods. I can let it smolder in the background without hardly thinking about it or talking about it. In fact, most of the time, I really don’t want to talk about it, or make futile attempts to explain it. Its enough that it is there, sometimes playing the symbiot, often, the taunting antagonist. Art is hard. It is unforgiving. Yet these characteristics are what give it such revelating power. There is honor in looking such things in the eye. I’m not obsessed with Art. As intense as it is, it would be foolhardy to give over completely. Surrender to it would be hardly different than total domination over it. The former would result in loss of identity, the latter… a deeper loss of identity. It is the struggle that reveals truth by the glimpse. Art is something that integrates itself into your being while still remaining foreign. And that…that’s possession. Don Sigl has been involved with photography for the last 30 years. Originally educated at RIT with degrees in applied photography and professional photography, he worked as a commercial photographer and producer for 12 years in Rochester, NY and Boston, MA. He began exhibiting in 1995, and has been represented by galleries in MA, NY, and Washington DC. Don’s exhibition list includes solo and group shows at both local and national levels. In 2001 he was selected by Spectator magazine as the critic’s choice for best visual artist in the Triangle. Don currently works and resides in Durham, NC.