MIKEL ELAM IS A VISUAL ARTIST.HIS WORK HAS BEEN ENTIRELY ABOUT CONVEYING SYMBOLIC,HOLISTIC,AND HISTORICAL MESSAGES THROUGH THE INFINITE EXPRESSIONS OF THE ORGANIC FORM. MOSTLY HUMAN AND SOMETIMES ANIMAL.
MIKEL ELAM ENTITLES HIS WORKS "THE MODERN PRIMITIVES" NAMED AFTER A FRENCH MOVEMENT IN THE EARLY PART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND SO RELEVANT TO THE WORLD WE LIVE IN TODAY.
MIKEL HAS BEEN INSPIRED BY THE EARLY MASTERS BUT HAS BEEN MOST INFLUENCED BY MODERN DAY MASTERS SUCH AS FRANCESCO CLEMENTE, JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT,FRANCIS BACON AND MARLENE DUMAS TO NAME A FEW.
THIS CENTURY WILL BE AN AWAKENING TO MANY CROSS SECTIONS OF IDEALS BASED ON OUR CROSS CULTURAL HERITAGE AND OUR ART WILL REFLECT THIS IMPORTANT NEW VISION.