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Mixed Media, Acrylic on Acrylic
Size: 24 W x 24 H x 0.5 D in
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This archival pigment print, with added medium on fine art paper is part of a larger series entitled "Passion and Reason". The original inspiration for this piece came from a lecture I attended in 2004 by the late Dr. Oliver Sacks. He spoke about the evolution of creativity and introduced the concept of imposed memories. He relayed a story in which he’d discovered that one of his vivid childhood memories didn’t in fact happen, at least not to him. Instead, he’d been merely present when a letter was read aloud, describing the incident in detail, as it had happened to another member of his family. He went on to relay his theory that some of the memories we perceive as our own may not actually be our own, and may in fact belong to someone else. For me, combining images that reference memory satisfies my compulsion to place things into a narrative; to mix past with present and form an imagined world inside of an existing one.
Original Created:2019
Subjects:Abstract
Mixed Media:Acrylic on Acrylic
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:3
Size:24 W x 24 H x 0.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
Packaging:Ships in a Box
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
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Precisely Now All things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me. -Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths In school I was taught to write with my right hand. I was more comfortable with my left. We had big sheets of paper and were instructed to make lines, then circles using our whole arm. I made hundreds, maybe thousands of circles. During that time I would sit in my first art studio (my bedroom closet) and paste these circles, along with found objects into books, later adding drawings and eventually my photographs. Doing so allowed me to record my thoughts and create visual order. Combining images satisfies my compulsion to place the random into a narrative; to mix past with present and form an imagined world inside of an existing one. My work explores ideas surrounding balance, memory and time. It carries with it a variety of influences, which constantly evolve based on the relevance I apply to particular happenings in my life, and the world at large. I begin with a drawing or a painting, sometime a photograph. The pieces are fused together onto canvas, board or paper, along with various combinations of pigment, ink and wax. At some point in the process, I ruin what I’m working on and spend equal time trying to fix what I’ve ruined. The process is nonlinear and I never end up with what I originally planned. In the end, I’m still sitting in a closet, pasting together circles and found objects.
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