VIEW IN MY ROOM
United States
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 18 W x 18 H x 0.5 D in
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I have met many people throughout my life who are afraid of silence. I have never been afraid of that blackness and I don't understand that fear; so I painted this as an expression of my personal relationship with silence. It is me. It is my awareness of my potential which stretches forever into the distance that I cannot yet see, but will see when I "look." I am the witness to myself. The fractured mirror in this work is my acknowledgement of the black being greater than my observations; but simultaneously a documentation of the reflective properties of looking, the fractured experiences that creates that begins to fill up the black space, and the interconnectedness of each observation because they are mine. The word silence is hidden in the black until I look closeup which is also when I particularly notice the black textures of paint left from my paintbrush. Motion is in the blackness as well as light! So when I step back and look again at the mirror, I see the light dancing on its surface instead of just the broken reflections. Then the fractures spin from the core and spill into the black which I see as a respite from the brilliant light of the mirror. As I am soothed by the black, I look again at the mirror and notice the cracks that remind me of the black. My experience with this painting never really ends and always offers something new to discover; hence the title SILENCE IS LOUD. This piece is part of my private collection.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:18 W x 18 H x 0.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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United States
I tell people that I paint God’s mistake which I know is controversial whether you are deeply religious or the opposite such as atheist. Yet my work is not about God, religion or atheism. My art is about the trauma associated with the inescapable relationship that mortality has with innocence. Our birth is not the intent of mortality, but it necessarily creates our personal annihilation. This personal destiny leaves each of us vulnerable to condemning our connection with innocent others who “created us to die” without our permission. Our “error” is our ownership of blame for mortality which is not the power over death; it is our power over cruelty. This inescapable destiny is where my art begins its expression(s). MY ART I use the ancient form of 2-D art to represent TIME as broken yet unfinished and continuing. Like the backside of a hung painting, we are absent before our birth and brought into reality through “others” who have marked our canvas of life already. Once born we see ourselves reflected on the "front side" of life yet witness our previous absence. My art examines this division as the relationship between hope and trust relevant to innocence. The change that each of us becomes by birth is a natural expression from life that we can perceive as a tradition of change. My art celebrates this with my rotation of mediums, vivid colors, energetic brush strokes, narratives of time-conflict, emotional dichotomies, vortex compositions showing our inescapable connection to a fractured reality, rhetorical word-play, and weapons symbolizing our relationship with mortal vulnerability. My “signature” is broken mirrors that capture the WITNESS as part of my art reminding us of our entitlement to mortal existence.
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