Keven is a self-taught artist who became a physician so he could one day become the kind of artist he envisioned. He recognized early on that traditional art school would not teach the methods or Ideas he sought to explore. His medical career allowed him to fund decades of self-directed experimentation, driven by a fascination with the origin of life and the natural processes that face rise to form and consciousness.
His early work Included photorealistic charcoal drawings and commissioned portraits, but over time he began working with elemental materials like sand, dirt, leaves and flower petals. After more than 20 years of refinement, he developed a technique to preserve organic matter - including color - long term. Once his process was fully realized, he sold his clinic and with the support of his wife, Elizabeth (his muse) became a full-time artist. His current work explores themes of recursion, entropy, preservation, and emergence. As he puts It: “I’m trying to minimize entropy - I don’t like change.”
“My work explores the origins of life, the role of recursion, and the natural processes that define what we are. I use actual materials from the earth - sand, petals, leaves - and suspend them In time. In this way, I’m trying to stop entropy, to hold a moment still, to preserve not only life’s form but Its structure. I believe that at every scale, from molecules to thoughts, nature builds Itself. I’m simply trying to make that process visible.“
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