Daniel Dutton
Welcome to the Omnichronic, a webwork of artist Dan Dutton.
Here you will find some of the Images; (visual art created in various mediums,) Sounds; (music and spoken poetry,) and Stories; (written and performed,) which form an object that I call The Omnichronic; a time-consuming rhapsody.
I live on a farm in the knobs of Kentucky, USA. My parents were farmers with strong artistic sensibilities. My father was a storyteller and singer who kept a pack of foxhounds especially chosen for their musical voices. This was in the days when the knobs were still a bit wild, and hounds could be loosed to run freely. The fox, my father informed me, was far too clever to be caught by hounds, and played them for fools in his game. He admired foxes and wouldn't have thought of killing one. The hounds lived in a noble state of denial. Fox, hounds, and father; engaged, as he put it, in "the sport of kings."
My mother was, and is, a prankster. She told me fairy tales in the oral tradition, freely embellished with subtle intimations aimed at influencing my behavior, and providing us both with amusement and wonder. Some of her pranks have been elaborate and tease the boundary of propriety and reason. I noted this creative freedom from a very early age, and began to mimic it with an aim toward the joy which mastery of such a craft provides. Both of my parents took great delight in song, word-play, curious events, the beauties of nature, and the foibles of humankind. This led me quite naturally to devote my life to art, a decision which I have had no occasion to regret.
My work is at once a satire on the artist's life, and a very sincere pursuit. It is unashamedly a rural and colloquial art, saturated in pretension as all the best of its kind must be. The finishing touch on the Omnichronic must be a skeletal one, I'm afraid, but I hope that you will enjoy this provisional offering. Art is nothing without conversation to animate it; so please, if you find something here of interest, do send me a message.
Daniel Dutton's Resume
The Ballad Project : Artist Statement
My friends at Kirby Stephens Design helped with parts of this site.
The cool photos of Dan are by William Cox.