Three Questions for Edward

What inspired your choice of medium?

I have been doing digital paintings and drawings for the last fifteen years. I can use variations of traditional painting, but have the added flexibility of changing my mind or direction midcourse without having to buy a new canvas. Storage of large amounts of work is also simplified, including archiving.

What was your creative process?

I work intuitively, and do not usually know what I am going to create until I feel and see it forming before my eyes. Everything and anything is full of many possibilities until it becomes actuality, and physical reality is always a bit limiting and frustrating, but it is where we live.

What is the significance of this work to you?

If we have a neighbor, conversely we are a neighbor to them. We recognize them by sight, maybe have spoken to them, perhaps know their routines, so likewise they are privy to the same knowledge of us. If they are good, we have seen Good and are living next to it. If they are bad, we have seen Bad and are living next to it, and vice versa. Then perhaps, mirrors are also neighbors, and we all have one or more of those in our own houses.

Edward Michael Supranowicz is the grandson of Irish and Lithuanian/Russian/Ukrainian immigrants. He grew up on a small farm in Appalachia. He has a grad background in painting and printmaking. Some of his artwork has recently or will soon appear in Fish Food, Streetlight, Another Chicago Magazine, Door Is A Jar, The Phoenix, and The Harvard Advocate. Edward is also a published poet who has had over 700 poems published and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize multiple times.