VIEW IN MY ROOM
Spain
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 19.7 W x 25.2 H x 1.2 D in
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My grandma used to talk about leaving her body at night. Tethered to her sleeping body by some kind of silver umbilical cord, she would float above herself. I imagine her ghost-nose pressing against the cold of the ceiling, alerting her to her newly buoyant astral body. She'd turn over to watch herself sleep for a moment before before slipping out the window. She had to be careful because she knew that if the thread broke, she’d never find her way back. This raised a lot of questions about the mechanics and durability of astral threads. Could they snag on a branch? Did they stretch obligingly? Or did they lengthen as needed? It would affect the return journey. With the former, at some point you'd exhaust the cords rubbery limits, then, having deformed itself quite enough for one evening, it'd abruptly snap back into shape, hurling you back into your body, waking you with a start. With the latter, it’s less abrupt, but more laborious. You’d have to coil it patiently around your arm, tensioned between the elbow and the webbing of your thumb and forefinger. Could you really enjoy the trip knowing that the further you flew, the more work you’re creating for yourself? Leaving your body is an inheirtable trait. Like fair hair and prominent noses. At the drop of a hat, or more likely the first sign of moderate confrontation, I slip out of my skin and watch the scene play out from a safe distance. Unlike her, I can’t stick the landing. I never mastered re-entry. I get tangled up and float around in knots for days, drifting in and out of sync. Waking up back in your body though, is there a more comforting sensation? All Bundled up. Brimming with yourself. Edges firm and familiar.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:19.7 W x 25.2 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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Ships From:Spain.
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James Ormiston is a kiwi born artist who made the move to Barcelona in early 2022. He grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand before moving to Dunedin, NZ, in his late teens to pursue a career in the arts. He studied Fine Art for a time at the Dunedin School of art, but left when opportunities arose to found an art gallery and focus on his illustration work; The latter would ultimately earn him a spot in an Australian Art Residency Program in 2017, prompting a move to Melbourne. The residency program gave James the chance to transition away from illustration and into Fine art by enabling him to study under a variety of contemporary realist painters to hone his skills. For the past few years James has continued to concentrate on finding his voice in a fine art context while maintaining a commitment to finding joy in the creative process. Seeing creation as a practice, not a performance, has been an invaluable shift in mindset, to which he credits his recent artistic output. His practice has largely taken the form of experimental portraiture in the genre of “disrupted realism”. The current body of work “Pushing through the skin” explores themes of identity, multiplicity, and the concept of self. The work in this series seeks to distance portraiture from faithful representation by distorting the subjects into near-anonymity through abstraction, omission, and the push and pull of order and chaos. Veins of bright colours piercing through carefully rendered realism are a recurring motif within the series; a nod to the dance of contradictions that co-exist within all of us. “Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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