contend: LIGHT + TIME

// 2014 - present

This series lies at the heart of all the others. From these works emerged the foundational system for how I have come to use color and line in accordance to the properties of Light and its relationship with Time.

  • ‘CONTEND’ EXISTS IN THE RESPITE OF TIME ;

    As my body works to process external stimuli, incoming sensory rhythms are constantly being hijacked by an excess build up of energies escaping from previously broken mental processes. In these moments where cognitive equilibrium has been compromised, I commence to find a place of asylum by constructing automatic paintings which unveil the destructive patterns that be, chronicling their journey outside of conventional rhythms of speech.

    Through a mindful process of focused distribution of primary colored acrylics, color and water fuse to produce vivid expressions of light, reminiscent of how it behaves within the concealed chambers of the brain. These tangled transitions of free-roaming energies are meditatively extracted and drained onto a blank frame of paper, bearing the linear transcription of their movements through Space and Time as captured at that moment.

    In this symbiotic exchange between myself and these paintings, an invisible war charged with conflicting rhythms in search of connection is moved to be visibly transformed into a beautifully diverse, free flowing symphony—energized by its collection of nondescript patterns of melody. The voice of this painting declares a still union between Rhythm and Time — and in this moment of brevity, I as the artist find rest.

 
 
 
 
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