Intro: Brett Loving is an Artist, a business owner and entrepreneur, an action sports athlete, and all-around earth experiencer. Brett Loving is 32 years old. He was born in San Diego, California, and grew up in Montana. His background started in motorcycle racing professionally. And from there, he went into racing cars and fasted forwards. He can use his creativity and work to create art while successfully proving that Art and life work can work together.
AMBI: Room tone
TRACK: I’m here in Bridgehampton with local artist Brett Loving, who creates his art using a very unusual tool.
ACT: BRETT: I fabricate all of my pieces, paintbrushes, and squeegees to go on to a 40000 pound Volvo excavator. So I push and pull the paint across the canvas using acrylic paints, also oils.
Track: It’s an unconventional way to paint, but for him, that’s the point.
ACT: BRETT: I like the idea of painting using modern machinery. I like the conversation of the bridge between machine and man.
Track: While we were talking about the conversation between machine and man. We drove deeper to find out what the juxtaposition was.
AMBI: Excavators sounds
ACT: BRETT: I believe that we are a dying breed, the last of an operator, the one to meld with the machine, and to be able to operate. Soon things will be AI, and we will no longer be needed. I like to focus on form and movement, and light. I also like the idea that we can manipulate our realities unless you are paralleling to them.
Track: How does your art make you feel?
ACT: BRETT: I’m not sure anything can make me feel anything. It’s all how I choose to feel. It’s how I choose to react. I began to realize that art imitates life in mysterious ways. So, yeah, my life has changed inevitably because of art, because of using colors. I started to realize that I appreciated colors like fall in spring and the developing seasons.
AMBI: Brushstrokes
ACT: BRETT: It started to occur to me that the brushstrokes, the layering of the paint on the canvas were like life and that oftentimes we start to reflect on the layers that we’ve become and the density of beings that we have. Subsequently become yes, I want people to stop and reflect on their lives, I want them to be immersed into a dimension of something different, not their obscure normal. I think we’re all living in the past, present and the future, and in cycles we go up and down and across the board from all.