by Michael Velliquette (Author)
What We Are Looking For is What is Looking chronicles the artist Michael Velliquette over a five-year period of his diverse and pluralistic artwork production. Velliquette's work insists on a new spiritual vocabulary--one that combines contemporary sensibilities about the handmade with the visual lexicon he has developed in his works over the past decade. Velliquette's vocabulary is bright, dense, ornamental, and is punctuated with recurring motifs such as eyes, flowers, feathers, and mandalas. Color plays a powerful role in Velliquette's work and acts to convey an aesthetic of plentitude. The labor-intensive nature of Velliquette's practice is also foregrounded in much of his work and correlates to a kind of studio-induced mindfulness.