Transforming inner chaos into intentional order.
My art is a direct, systematic process for managing internal experience.
It begins with chaotic sketches; physical manifestations of my thoughts, beliefs, and past trauma. I allow this initial disorder to exist, clipping the sketches to a line that I pass daily. I recompose the work again and again; dismantling the chaos and rebuilding into rigid, intentional compositions. While we cannot control external factors or go back in time, we can rework our internal thoughts into something palatable, even if that order exists only briefly in a two-dimensional space.
I present these pieces of art because they work for me to impose order and control. They work for you, the viewer, to encourage you to reflect and organize your own experiences. My goal is to validate that you are not alone in your complexity. By showing the structure I’ve created from my own turmoil, I offer proof that meaning and patterns can be built directly from chaos.
Copyright © 2025 Ray Schmelzer - All Rights Reserved.