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Life and art are most interesting in flux. Exciting experiences are validated by the same risks which render them exciting. The creation of new art involves a departure from forms which have already been identified. This risk must also be taken by one who wishes to witness the art. The security of familiar images represents a static force, which is the absence of life. We live only to the extent that we accept responsibility for our individual choices. All of my work begins from this stance. 
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records

Payton’s work sits on a circuitous line of art history that includes American Abstractionism and weaves through Kinetic art, Social Realism, and Neo-Expressionism while never fraying the thread tying it back to the Gold Coast of Africa. The synchronicity of these diametric oppositions may become easier to understand when you trace the New Orleans-born sculptor’s influences back to music. 
—Excerpted from https://countryroadsmagazine.com/art-and-culture/visual-performing-arts/broken-time/, accessed 6-20-2021