"Nous connaitrions-nous seulement un peu nous-mêmes san les arts?"
"Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?"

-Gabrielle Roy, printed on the Canadian $20 bill

"Everyone is an artist."

-Joseph Bueys

It is my long-standing belief that creativity is an essential aspect of what makes us human, and therefore we each have an artistic side of our personality. While people do have natural inclinations towards certain abilities or insights, referring to them as "talented" or "gifted" can run the risk of dismissing the amount of patience and perseverance they have invested in honing that discipline. Even more importantly, it can negate the potential for others to achieve that same level. Human experience has repeatedly proven that we possess amazing and limitless capacity for adaptation and resourcefulness. The only barrier is self-confidence. This philosophy is at the heart of my approach to art-making and teaching.

Drawing, at its essence, is nothing more than the act of connecting a tool with a surface and placing a mark upon it. Within this simple action lie the infinite possibilities of communication and expression: the origin of written language, and the documentation of civilization. Given such broad parameters, I have discovered inspiration from all aspects of visual culture. Comics, illustration, industrial design, and grafitti are as valid as art history for reference; in fact, they are a part of art history.

My sculptural work has mainly been explorations of drawing in a new context. While 2-dimensional works are often thought of as windows to another reality, it has also been said that sculptures are metaphors for how we ourselves physically stand in the world. I am deeply fascinated to explore what happens when these disparate relationships are merged together.

Clement Yeh, 2008