“In the abstract”

Art school taught me to feign certainty in my work, to pretend that my artwork arrived to me fully formed, or as the product of conscious deliberation, with no deviations from the plan.
There seemed to be no wiggle room for chance and magic.

The other end of the spectrum never quite suited me either, the “I shouldn’t have to justify my work” type thinking.
Where your relieve yourself of any obligation to understand your practice.

Plus art is just a proxy-self, why deny yourself the pleasure of talking about yourself by proxy?

So, from this fence of artistic-centrism I precariously straddle, I present to you;
What I know, and what I suspect.

What I know is that I feel abstraction calling me, louder and louder.
I know I want create pleasing abstract shapes using the human form.

What I suspect, based on circumstances in my life at the time of it’s creation, is that it’s about loss.
That feeling that your sense of self doesn’t stop at your skin, but stretches out and incorporates the people in your life.
Certain patterns of neurons only fire in the presence of certain people, and without them as a trigger, those parts of myself are inaccessible.
I am smaller in their absence, and I can feel the gaps they once occupied.

I suspect that this piece is about the way losing someone means losing a piece of yourself, and the mental gymnastics of trying to see that as human and beautiful.

“In the abstract”
Mixed media on canvas.
Available through @artevistasgallery.
Worldwide shipping available.
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