My name is Joseph Denis Bri猫re and I am a Canadian M茅tis electrical engineer who has worked 40 years in the petroleum industry. I am married to Debra and I have two children, Daniel and Diana.
I have travelled to many countries and I am currently the international manager with Chapman Petroleum Engineering in Calgary.
I have assisted with the world鈥檚 first hydrogen well test in Africa. I have facilitated the modernization of booking oil reserves in Peru. I have started a Cuban logging company by merging Canadian and Russian technology. I have conducted international training sessions in English, French and Spanish. I have developed a LogSCAN digitizing software while analyzing conventional oil, gas and heavy oil reservoirs.
But now is my time to draw and to paint, like I have always wanted to do, except that this other stuff got in the way.
Please see my art work at www.metiphysical.com.
When I was a boy, I heard grownups say out loud: 鈥淥ur Father who art in heaven,鈥� so I figured I鈥檇 better get started drawing right away.
In my art, I like to imitate the real world, to copy real nature, to represent what I see and to attempt to show what I feel.
I have since learned that this life imitation idea is called 鈥渕imesis.鈥�
So I suppose that makes me a 鈥渕imesist.鈥�
There are moments when I draw and then colour an image of a notion of an idea pinched from somebody鈥檚 past or from someone else鈥檚 current present or future experience or even from anything that I envision inside any complex multiverse.
There鈥檚 a lot to paint, isn鈥檛 there?
First contact
By Joseph Denis Bri猫re
You see less and less of 鈥渇irst contact鈥� in art today, yet famous works still hang in museums all over the world that depict European explorers meeting First Nation people. I enjoy making first contact representations, but mine is not really reality, it is only mimesis, a life imitation.
How can a painting really be reality? It is only 鈥渓ike鈥� reality. I call myself a 鈥渕imesist鈥� because I enjoy exploring many forms of life imitation. You get to mix paint and ideas together to contact that which could have been first.
There are many first contact interpretations, but my paintings suggest animalistic stirrings. Sometimes the stirrings are about trust. Sometimes the stirrings are about hope.
Sometimes I believe I shouldn鈥檛 paint this or that because it may be objectionable to somebody alive here on Earth, or, heaven forbid, to some ancestral being, because first contact has actually gone both ways, good and bad.
It鈥檚 just my mimesis. It鈥檚 an idea of an idea of an idea. It鈥檚 not the eventual connection. It鈥檚 the first contact.
