5. Andi Todaro

ARTIST STATEMENT

'The Nearly Neglected Ecstasy of Laughter' is at its most basic, a visual feast of the sensual. The many physical experiences (smelling, hugging, touching, hearing) that became so few and far between during our (now continued) separation from one another, took on an almost heroic role in my life. These moments of absolute LOVE saved me the monotony of my thoughts, of bad news and repeated days...of not seeing the miracle that is to just 'be' here. When you know 'how' to really look and feel (with the gift of corporeal sensuality) you are able to meander through the ways it arises in everyday moments and experience what a pleasure it is to exist. Being playful, light, and enjoying something as simple as the color of something or hearing someone laugh, have just as much merit as being worrisome, considerate and serious. My hope is that this work makes someone smile, brings them pleasure and reminds them to love and receive love, to be gentle with themselves and with the world, and to continue to seek out all the ways that it is beautiful even when it may feel like there is nothing left to be found.

ARTIST BIO

Andi Todaro is a versatile, multi-disciplinary, craftsman and award-winning creative professional, best known for their broad scale and range of practical and impractical knowledge and eccentric dress. Todaro pursues an ever-evolving skill set, fueled by perpetual desire for self-astonishment, be it mastery of a new computer program, mechanical know-how, scale, or experimental process. Todaro does a crossword a day, and plays lots of video games.