Eric Knoche Artist Statement
My most important artistic influence was the annual ‘Whitman’s Sampler’ boxes that my grandma bought for Christmas; the kind where each chocolate is a different shape and style and there is a key on the inside of the box to tell you what’s what. Of course there are other things that have influenced me, but I think that is the earliest and strongest.
But seriously, I try to make things that have some potential for visceral communication -- meaning at a level below language. Maybe somewhere along the edge of the subconscious. I also want the things I make to be pretty and interesting to look at.
