Jason Greene is partially hydrogenated and still painting. He was proudly grown Mississippi and has lived in a few other places besides Portland, Oregon. Jason wants to be an Artist some day and has been practicing art for nearly thirty years now. Having been educated by children, professors, and many objects and experiences, he has a unique grasp of the brush, the pencil, and most any other stick involved in the creative process. Greene has worked as an archaeological illustrator, an interactive exhibit designer, and most recently as an “Artist in Residence” with the Portland Fire Bureau.

My work was once described by a four year old critic, “That’s just scribble-scrabble.” His comment was more likely some regurgitation of adult wisdom, and for years I took offense with those words and their worthless connotation. Now I’m beginning to embrace it.

Scribbling is drawing set free. Why (even at the age of four) should we ever stop scribbling?

Art is a game. You make some mark or object, and whether you ask them to or not, people try to figure out “what it is”, “what it means”, and if they like it. Of course, this is extremely subjective and there is never any real winner. However, it is a sort of game we have created to try and relate to the world around us and to one another. Our minds read in symbols, each one of us with his or her own internal dictionary. With very few risks involved, we can play with visual images, allowing them to bounce within the brain and emerge as ideas or feelings, a reaction to a symbolic collage.

Several of my recent paintings are based on some very serious scribbling. In some way, I want to capture what is between my brain and the canvas and realize the many layers I’m seeing through: the lens of my eyeball, the dust particles swimming in the air between me and a surface, the surface itself, and even the day-dreams or thoughts that come between that surface and my visual cortex. These thoughts and images are then translated and filtered through muscles and paint creating further images that complete this circular process. I like to scribble when I paint.

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