Pour Dennison spent his youth touring with the rock bands Smart Went Crazy and The Caribbean, attending the university during breaks to earn his degrees. Papers in hand, he became the General Counsel of an aerospace company, wrote a novel, and taught at university—”Until I got the boot for wishing the chairman of the floor a Merry Christmas.” Every path he’s walked shares a common thread: fluidity. “It demands you think fast and own  permanent outcomes, no safety nets, no backups; even on a team, you’re alone and fully accountable.” That’s his zone. That’s where he thrives. That’s what he found in this quirky art form  called Liquid Chaos Art.

He stumbled upon it one evening on the internet —”Someone pouring paints on a canvas.” The process was driven by physics, buoyancy, gravity and time, but it appeared to be a child’s hobby to Dennison. “I thought, what all these people are doing is non-representational decor wall art, which is fine, but it seemed to lack seriousness. I noticed as they were going through the process it seemed like images were appearing, but people were not noticing them and they were just being wiped them from the canvas to create this color wall art. I wondered where were these images coming from and not only could they be captured but could they be coerced. Could you set it up, help it along and then stop the process at just the right moment to catch whatever it was coming through. It would be like snapping a picture of gravity. And could it be done in a serious way?”  He’s always chased shifting ground requiring quick decisions creating permanent results. Liquid Chaos Art delivers just that: “You’re never 100% in control, you have a goal, but you have to negotiate with laws. In the end you’re just mediating with the universe, mitigating with its forces. If you’re lucky, you create. If not, you’re just wasting everyone’s time, but you’re just a facilitator. You’re setting things up, sometimes it can take hours, but you’re just setting things up so that things can happen, and you’re letting the paint enter into a raw dance with the forces of gravity and physics. Your job is to set in up and keep the canvas within the field where the action is happening until the dance is over and then you stop it before it all falls apart; timing is everything…well and preparation is just as important and much more difficult. The whole thing looks very simple, but to do it right, it’s not simple. It can be very complicated. The simplicity is an illusion.”

Pour Dennison is a musician, a lawyer and a Liquid Chaos Artist.