David Wilinski

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I'm a young emerging artist from Chicago.
Art is the craft of staging a tragicomic scene. Art emerges from a wound at the heart of the world, from a ghostly dimension. I would like to keep the mystery of the dimension even to myself, to keep it secret. Because even as the author of my paintings I am only the conjurer of those ghostly scenes and they speak through me, and never for me. The paintings are a ghostly re-staging of a scene whose explanation is secret to me. I want the paintings to resist the desire for mastery over them, to resist interpretation, to have them speak. I want them to be those pockets of silence which act like unscheduled explosions, introduced into the accustomed flow of the day, which may open, now and then, passages to elsewhere. I want those who view them to come upon a scene which is strangely familiar in an uncanny way and one which offers a break to the quotidian activity of the day.
And things gush from the wound onto the canvas as if it was only a one way street. Trying to climb back into it and describe what's happening in there via an A.S cannot be done any more successfully than trying to climb back into that primordial womb from which we call our origi...

B.S English focus on critical theory/ minor in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Chicago

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