John Cardone

Syracuse, NY

John Cardone

Syracuse, NY

We don't want to make art. We want only to make what needs to be made right here and right now. All notions of the appropriate and the proper must be destroyed and all concepts of the artist, the student, or the man, must be abolished, for these are ever the guardians of yesterday's affairs. They are tools of preservation in a time of transformation. Boundaries, borders, frames, walls, all must go until only relationships remain. In these relationships we will learn to define ourselves in the world and the world within us.

Nothing exists that we cannot perceive, nothing is ours that we have not made, and nothing has meaning that we have not given. In order to foster a more active participation in the collaborative act of creation in which mankind engages every day, we must engage in art practices that are completely dependent on interaction and investment. The value of artwork is not derived from its original material but from the energy invested in it and the significance that it gathers from each hand through which it passes. None of us exists in vacuum; instead, all creation relies on collaboration and exterior influence. Rather than try to isolate ourselves as individuals, we should embrace our dependency on each other and our environment. Our goal is not to make things that are new but to make anew that which already exists in our hands, our minds, and our hearts.

  • Work
    • Teaching Artist at 601 Tully, Artist in Residence
  • Education
    • BFA Syracuse Suniversity