Alex Staten

In lieu of accolades, how about a leading question: What was that one great wisdom of Old Qoheleth– "nothing new under the sun"? Well, spite this old philosopher's futile attempt to condemn all creativity as redundant for the ensuing millennia, Alex Staten–composer; percussionist; photographer; writer; none of the above– endeavors with great persistence to demonstrate in his work that, indeed, though a thousand identical bricks may be baking in the midday sunlight of our creative age, yet there will always need be made a thousand more. So the anachronistic, unrefined tonality of Alex's words, music, and photographs comprises his clay, baking somewhere, undoubtedly, amid the pallet's lower layers.