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My First Rodeo Painting
Ireland
Painting, Oil on Linen
Size: 24.2 W x 32.1 H x 0.8 D in
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Oil paint on linen Somewhere between the quotes of Samuel Beckett and Roy Keane and a deep love of westerns comes the influence for this piece. Beckett said “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” I also love the part that immediately follows this bit : “First the body. No. First the place. No. First both. Now either. Now the other. Sick of the either try the other. Sick of it back sick of the either. So on. Somehow on. Till sick of both. Throw up and go. Where neither. Till sick of there. Throw up and back. The body again. Where none. The place again. Where none. Try again. Fail again. Better again. Or better worse. Fail worse again. Still worse again. Till sick for good. Throw up for good. Go for good. Where neither for good. Good and all.” As this markedly darker snippet of text demonstrates, Worstward Ho! seems to have nothing to do with positivity, motivation, or progress. In fact, it seems that the only recompense Beckett’s narrator can come up with for the absurdity of existence is to “fail better” the next time. Roy Keane simply said “Fail to prepare, prepare to fail”
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Painting:Oil on Linen
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:24.2 W x 32.1 H x 0.8 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Yes
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Ireland
I’m far more interested in what’s left behind after the destruction of the paint surface, it’s all and everything that we must build on. The destruction of the paint surface causes me to change direction. I’m interested in the connection between what’s gone and what’s left behind. In conservation circles they speak about the agents of deterioration and areas of loss. These are phrases that interest me, there is a sense of history attached to them, they speak of a life lived by an object affected by time. Through the making and destruction of the paint surface a narrative is built. Its own history made. Its own life lived. The destruction of the paint surface causes scarring, this scarring builds texture. My practice lives in the space between familiar and unfamiliar . There are many failures, and each layer is built on a failure. There is something that happens in there between layers, it is like the slowing down of time, like a methodical move forward, like multi-tasking in slow motion. The constant scarring and destruction of numerous layered paint surfaces sometimes produces something beautiful. Sometimes, something beautiful is built on failures.
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