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United States
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 72 W x 84 H x 2 D in
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While I was in Berlin, I saw graffiti of the word "Eros" with a huge "X" scrawled over it. I found this image incredibly compelling, for so much of our psychological makeup is the negotiation of desire. Eros, the life instinct in Freudian psychology, creates a psychic push and pull. Desire is often denied, as it can create crises in one's personal life, but its pull is undeniable, and to stifle it feels suffocating, sometimes becoming unbearable. The pattern emerges from the photograph, which I turned into a screen print. I altered the order of the print process through the grid that emerged so that, even though using the same four colors for the prints, difference emerged in the pattern.
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:72 W x 84 H x 2 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Ships From:United States.
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I believe that painting, especially now, demands bravery. If I didn't have skin in the game, I wouldn't need to make the work. For me, painting is the most honest form of thinking. Even as I reach the end of a painting, it remains an open form. The work only seems to belong to me, when it actually always already belonged to the world. My consciousness is a composite of memory, a collage of outside influences, and as I put that in the work, I find that the world emerges again, slightly reconfigured, through my hands. When I paint, I gain radical access to my own physical, emotional, and intellectual permeability. I embrace with exuberance the impossibility of doing anything untouched by history, as that creates the freedom to explore the multiplicity of meaning within painterly gesture itself. Mark-making is a code of signs, complete with its own idioms.The permeability of human consciousness is essential to the work because it creates a space for the historically distinct models of image-making and narrative I use to echo off one another. In the space of the painting, I aim to create a resonance within the consciousness of the viewer that breaks the boundaries of the object itself.
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