green metro living area Painting

One in a series off four abstract colorfield paintings, that are concerned with noise, air pollution, the size of green space and how we are, or are not, able to connect to nature and the need for quietude in our daily lives. Each painting is titled to a location in Taipei City and New Taipei City, Taiwan. The themes and concepts were triggered by statements on information posters I came across in Taipei City, Taiwan; ‘Green Living Area With Metro Taipei’ and ‘Taipei, Is not only a city, But also a forest’. These statements led to a line of inquiry of how true where these statements to the extent that the posters wanted me, the reader, to believe? My work for some time has been focused on deterioration found in my daily environment, a microcosmic look at the natural break down of materials such as metal, paint and concrete. The paintings in this series, ‘disquietude’, are a look at the break down of natural environment through the needs of modern city life. The dots and splashes of paint, that make up the paintings surface, being representative of dust particles in the air and/or interference of the kind you get visually and audibly from an out of tune TV or radio. This painted effect also acting as a silent visual exaggeration of dust particles in our air and the pollution from traffic noise; the interference that disrupts our desire to connect to the natural world, and also obstructs our needed moments of tranquility and silence within our busy daily lives. The ‘disquietude’ exhibition at which these paintings were shown was also accompanied by extra online visual and audio materials which put the paintings into greater context, helping the viewer make a connection between the paintings and the sights and sounds in their day to day environment; which in turn takes the paintings away from being viewed as abstract and blurs where they sit stylistically in the art cannon. Viewing them from this perspective with the added information of photography and sound recordings the paintings become abstracted/representational in nature. We could conclude from the paintings, sound recordings and photographs that we are choking, deafened by sound and unable to connect to the natural environment in the midst of the city, yet natures resilience continues against surmounting odds producing vibrant greens, delicate vibrantly colored flowers and also helping us to breath, even in the most hostile of environments; and when the traffic stops just for a second we can sit in tranquility and reconnect to the natural world. The sound recordings and digital photographs that accompany each painting will be supplied in a digital format (USB storage) with each painting. The painting has been made by placing stretched canvas on the floor. A brush being loaded with paint and then tapped gently above the canvas to give a spray effect; the surface becoming made up of small dots and splashes of paint giving some surface texture; although this is quite minimal as the paint is heavily thinned. Layers of paint are applied one at a time; wet-on-wet or wet-on-dry, and each layer of varying tonal strengths to the last, depending on texture and visual effect desired. Painting is signed, dated and titled on rear. Ready for hanging.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:39.4 W x 39.4 H x 0.9 D in

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