Very brief artist statement

I spend too much time having to figure out how to talk about my art instead of making a ton of art until I figure it out. The result is a painfully vague artist statement,

I drew a lot since I was a small child, and I spent a lot of time drawing from life. Being able omit or add whatever I wanted, I felt that whatever was on my paper was maybe even better than real life. My paintings are a reflection of how I see things, which is not necessarily better, but how I see things has a spiritual element. What an object actually looks like seems static to me, and what I love about people, places, and things are about my interactions with those things.

That is a very general artist statement and I feel the need to clarify detail in regards to what I am doing now through graduation. Here are a few key points of what I am interested in, and I imagine that it will all come together into a cohesive statement when I am closer to being finished.

-This semester I am exploring and hopefully solidifying my art-making process by practicing prolificity  and developing my own visual vocabulary.

-In Europe, I will be studying how visual symbols are used in Byzantine art and the way the mood of the churches are controlled by the art (lay out, detail, focal point, size, etc). I am most interested in the philosophies behind it, and less in directly copying it. I don't plan on simply re-creating more Byzantine art, but I think people may notice the reference in my work.
- I am interested in the difference between Greek and Hebrew thinking. This is important and interesting to me because Greeks are the creator s of Western philosophy, and the Bible was written in Hebrew, which makes for an interesting dynamic for Christian belief and what the Hebrews meant. It is really difficult to sum up, but if I must, a Greek would look at a chicken and think, "that is a chicken". For Greeks, the form is what indicates it a chicken, because it is the least changeable aspect of the chicken and thereby is the most superior way to decipher what is chicken. However, for Hebrews, a chicken is called a chicken because it does what chickens do, for example, eat grass and bugs, clucks, lays eggs, and scratches. For Hebrews, a chicken, even if the form changes, but continues to do what chickens do, it is still a chicken.
I am not sure exactly how this discernment between thoughts lends itself to my project, but I find it dreadfully interesting and I can't stop thinking about it.
- In terms of what I hope to present as a physical culmination of all of this for my BFA final project, I want to create an installation that includes a strong element of what I found in the spacial relationship between viewer and the art in the churches in Europe. I don't plan on simply recreating religious art, but I hope to make responsive paintings that are more personalized, and cover all surfaces of the inside of some structure with paintings. I have two logistical ideas for this: one is to cover the inside of Cookie (my box delivery truck) with paintings. Two, I started collecting doors and started drawing on some of them. I have considered creating an house structure, where I paint on doors and windows and suspend them so that they behave like a house, but the walls are missing. Both ideas would have a autobiographical element.