Visual Artist · New York City
Artist Statement · 2026

About

Ashton Herres handwritten signature

Art as a record of consciousness, shadow, spiritual development, and transformation.

Ashton Herres with painting
New York City · 2026
Statement

Hi, I’m Ashton. Visual art to me is not an external status identification or some bizarre Machiavellian method for me to LARP into high-status rooms or something.

I have an aggressive shadow, in the psychological and somatic sense. My darkness expresses itself in all sorts of shitty and self-destructive ways. To integrate this shadow into my body and mind, I splatter my consciousness onto various surfaces with various mediums. Many artists bend cultural boundaries intentionally for the sake of making conceptual pieces to change their external reality.

I believe there is no separation between one’s internal perception of their world and, well—the world. So I’m interested in metaprogramming my perception and DNA. I wish to align my “Vibration” with higher and higher tiers of potential for my vessel.

Negative immutable and mutable karma can be converted into beauty at every fraction of a microsecond. So I spend many seconds, hours, days, weeks recording my process of pain and life. It comes out as visual art for now.

When you purchase a piece of my art, you are buying my pain, my spiritual development, my flaws and, well—hopefully you find it beautiful. It might not match your couch, but I hope it matches your soul.

error: Content is protected !!