The drawings and paintings of Aron Wiesenfeld depict solitary figures in bleak, silent spaces. His work is about individuality and finding your self. For the young, innocent characters in his work it's a coming of age, an initiation into adulthood. Of his own work Wiesenfeld says, "It's my personal feeling, that I need to sequester myself away from external influences to be able to hear my own voice. It has been necessary to do that in order to become an artist and do work that is really mine. My experience has been that other people, even the ones with the best intentions, have their own ideas about what I should be doing, plus the world is full of ideologies that will push and pull you. I think that's part of where that story in my work comes from, which is about removing oneself from society to become a sovereign person."
His work is interesting to me because of this narrative, and because of what it suggests about creativity. That creativity is something which performs best in solitude, outside of the impressions and stresses of others.
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