Brock Kingsley is a writer, artist, and educator living in Fort Worth, TX.
His work has appeared in publications such as Brooklyn Rail, Compose Journal, Epiphany, Paste Magazine, Pidgeon Holes, Waxwing, and elsewhere. He is a regular contributor to Chicago Review of Books
Artist Statement
As a literary artist working in the essay form, I am interested in what phenomena can tell us about ourselves. Through engagement with objects and ideas, my work explores the relationship between the self and the larger world. The essay form is itself concerned with how form and content play together, how they can bring new understanding to the other. And how they can work together to encourage further examination of our lived realities.
My current work uses the essay to explore the intersection of specific pieces of visual work and our lived experiences—how to give language to thoughts, feelings, ideas and connections that a specific phenomena arouses or provokes through viewing. My work expands the conversation about how art (in its phenomenological form) can inform and transcend who we are and how we interact with the world.
My practice is a gradual process of looking, paying attention. Not just to the work, but to the self: place and context, mood and physicality. This act of looking outside of oneself to look within oneself becomes a process of vulnerability, of building empathy.