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doze Painting
United States
Painting, Oil on Wood
Size: 10 W x 8 H x 1.5 D in
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Doze was inspired by a photo my partner took of herself at night while drifting off to sleep. I came across it because she took it with my camera and she mentioned she didn't even remember taking it, but it resonated with me and I saw the potential for a dreamy, intimate painting. The fact that she couldn't place a time on the photo and didn't know why she took it added the mystery surrounding the source. I wanted this portrait to be a monument to her beauty but I was also consciously fighting lapsing in making a "pretty", conventionally flattering portrait and put aside capturing likeness in favor of emotional intensity. I wanted it to be ethereal but also feel like a candid, full frontal shot that did not hide or blur skin texture or the shine of the camera (was reading about Lucien Freud at the time so he may have served as inspiration).
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Painting:Oil on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:10 W x 8 H x 1.5 D in
Frame:Black
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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I see each of my paintings as a dense collection of layered missteps guided by a single underlying intention. In most of my work, I’m attempting a semi-realistic interpretation of an imagined environment, employing realism and abstraction in a way that gives the impression of a scene on the verge of collapse. The photographic source material I use serves as both a jumping off point and something to fight against. I try to glean from the source only that which resonates with me and dispose of the rest so as to avoid slavish depiction. The ideal result is a faint echo or a total reconstruction of what is observed, anchored by recurring themes of nostalgia, my own existential anxieties and the corruption of human memory. I view the painting process as a form of self-examination – the end product’s value lying in the thoughts, emotions and memories I’ve projected onto the objective source.
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