Commenting on the overarching division between geometric and organic forms, a reader asks Matt whether he believes that geometry is divine.

Matt responds:

To think of pure geometry is to think along a line of absolutes.  That is what geometry most likely is.  I took geometry in school and probably didn’t understand it...  I know 2 and 2 is 4, but in my philosophy I believe you can make 2 and 2 into 6 or 12 or 45.  I still believe oil and water will oneday mix.  That’s what makes me a fool in many people’s eyes.  Being human, I don’t give a damn.

In my art I purposely try to not discriminate against any form, color, mutation, or meandering.  I do that because one of my main goals in life is accepting and digging further and further into the archaeological dig of “What and who is Matt Lamb, and how can he be a better, more inquisitive artist to present whatever message he’s trying to tell the world?”  Therefore, I have many children and many tools in my toolbox.  I love all of them.

Whether the perfect square or the perfect rectangle comes from God is a question that’s above my pay grade.  If you believe in God and free will, then you therefore have the great pleasure and also the great task of making many decisions.  The easy ones are at the stop light:  Stop when it’s red, go when it’s green.  Or when you get on an airplane:  Sit down, buckle up, and get flown somewhere...

But to think about anything that has to do with art and the human spirit, is all too often to put our thoughts into some sort of Almighty box that’s dictated by other free beings such as we.  That’s not the world as I see it.  I give myself as much liberty as I can gather up through the billions of years of stardust inside of me.  If something is foreign or familiar, redundant or brilliant, trite or original, is immaterial.  It could be all of those things on the same plane, because it’s about the complete acceptance of the ability of the mind to think in many different directions.

To be human is to be an anomaly.  We can love and hate, hurt and heal, we can laugh and cry.  We have many different dimensions.  I believe that when we—as people and as artists, because we’re all artists in some way, shape, or form—we don’t do things that are exactly cloned to what other people do.  I think that’s what the DNA is telling us:  that we’re all completely different, even though we all think we’re the same.  The power of art is that we look at the same thing, but we’re all seeing something different.  That’s where understanding comes in.

Thanks for the thought-provoking question,
Matt