“I hope to inspire an examination of the habitual deprecation of this approach: ‘Has the reach of one’s aesthetic imagination been reduced to its grasp?’  I suggest sentiment may be the last frontier of the avant-garde.  Accordingly, I propose affirmation in the place of critique, longing instead of identity, pictorial coherence instead of fragmentation.  I propose devotion to craft, not freedom from it.  Rather than assert an identity or contest a social order, I try to step into an imaginary space I aspire to but cannot fully inhabit. At its core, engaging with the instability of that fiction is my artistic practice,”  by Kevin Melchionne.