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Painting, Acrylic on Wood
Size: 16 W x 8 H x 1 D in
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One night, I was feeling really frustrated and confused. I went into my art space in my apartment (a closet that I transformed into a mini-studio space) and started layering paint over and over on a wood panel. I scratched into the paint before it could fully dry. Then I'd smudge with a sponge or my paintbrush. Then I'd scratch into the painting again. And I kept repeating these stages, not in a rigid way or a particular order, but rather in a way that just felt right. My whole body and self became immersed in this process. The painting became a reflection of my headspace, like searching for a street sign on a foggy day from a misty car window. Like I said, I felt confused that night, like I wasn't sure of something but could hardly tell what my question even was. I wasn't sure of what I was really feeling in any precise way. So I shifted between muddying the waters and scratching the surface, searching for some clarity on what I was really feeling. Not that confusion isn't a real feeling - of course, it is - but it's also usually the result of other maybe contradictory feelings mixing together in our heads. The next day, I woke up and looked at the painting I had made the night before. And then, the painting made sense to me in a way it hadn't in the middle of the night, right after I finished it. This painting isn't about clarity, doesn't come from a place of knowing. However, confusion and the frustration of wanting to know so bad that you only feel more confused - these feelings are worthy of expressing too. And it's a good thing to be reminded that it's okay to feel disoriented and confused by trying to sort things out, by the searching process. Allowing myself to feel "off" so I can be open to a deeper understanding is also a good thing. Clarity often follows confusion anyway, or at least that's how it seems?
Painting:Acrylic on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:16 W x 8 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Yes
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My art expresses the intricacies of being alive. Consciousness is full of interrelated opposites such as darkness and light, change and constancy, stillness and movement. This concept of duality is core to my paintings, drawings, and mixed media works. I use texture, color, line, and medium choices as well as abstraction, realism, and text to represent different slices of human perception. As a survivor of sexual abuse, I struggled to keep myself alive during my teenage years and early adulthood. My artwork reflects my own story, healing process, and grief as well as my observations from nature, research, and everyday life. Each artwork can stand alone to depict a certain layer or aspect of the human experience, but I also continually group and connect them like fluctuating puzzle pieces building my ever-growing picture of existence.
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