Artwork
“What’s your worldview?”
2020 / Acrylic on Canvas / 40 x 60 cm
About the Artist
Matthew Anderson (b. 1989, Indiana USA) is a visual artist, musician, and software director based in Mexico City who believes in emotional elasticity.
Much like how one can grow physically (through exercise) or intellectually (through studying), work can be done to grow emotionally. But, without that work, one’s emotional development generally stops during childhood and mirrors the emotional maturity of the adults closest to them early in life.
As an artist, Matthew seeks to make the often uncomfortable work of emotional maturation (feeling, accepting, and processing all emotions) more accessible for self and audience through the playful expression of paint and song.
About the Album
His upcoming debut album (What's Your Worldview?) is composed of songs written over the last eight years.
Released under the moniker Charles Arizona, the album grapples with the "what" and "why" of new felt anxiety and depression, resulting substance dependence, some good ole’ heartbreak, and the role (and validity) of the version of Christianity deeply imprinted upon him during childhood.
Charles Arizona was the email address of his grandfather.