Biography
The individuation approached by the animal representations in Tra Bouscaren's work is overwhelmed by the cycle of life that runs through it.The animal's emotional pull on our sympathies is balanced by the seemingly arbitrary and abstract nature of their construction. The mirror we face in his work is simultaneously both hot and cold.
Bouscaren's self-referential approach builds his own artistic history back into the material he works with, thus providing an artistic gambit for sustainable development as well as a kind of automatic vision of history becoming individual, and back again. In his lust to articulate the depth of nature's proposals, Bouscaren's work is robust and changeling, la
