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TAIPEI, TAIWAN / 4.2.22 / 11:33 AM Painting

Mike Ryczek

United States

Painting, Oil on Wood

Size: 16 W x 12 H x 1 D in

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As the pandemic slowly began upending the daily activities and freedoms we’ve all grown used to, I found myself with a lot of time on my hands and no clear direction. With my choices limited and the local and international art worlds essentially grinding to a halt, I felt free to lose myself in work. After going through my sketchbook for ideas, I remembered a site I had stumbled on in early 2019 that streamed thousands of public surveillance cameras from around the world. When I revisited the site, I found myself absorbed in this seemingly endless collection of footage without sound and often without specific context. Since March 2020 I’ve been continuing to gather images from this site, finding fresh visual inspiration in foreign environments despite being otherwise restricted. Each piece is titled with the exact location, date and time at which the screenshot of the main source image was taken.

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Painting:Oil on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:16 W x 12 H x 1 D in

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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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