VIEW IN MY ROOM
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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 16 W x 16 H x 0.5 D in
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The words on the canvas “The Witness to Consciousness is First Its Own Potential” infer a relationship with time and sentient consciousness that is inescapable; and also hint that existence happens “backwards.” As one looks in a mirror, the mirror does not create the person or image; it is a static state of potential reflection that is simply there and available. When you look, you exist there. Yet, the potential is not able to create itself; the act of you looking is able to witness what you already are. Our mortality is a similar metaphor. Each of us is unable to create our individual life because we are only born by the actions of someone else. It is only AFTER we exist that we can recognize that life was already at play, yet each of us potentially existed already. My mortality is a paradox like the fate of the cat in the box in Schrodinger’s thought theory except my paradox is not whether I will live or die, but whether my identity is mine or yours. When you see your reflection in my painting is it because I painted this or because you looked at it? Who is the creator other than the witness? When you look in the mirror are you seeing your image or the potential of your image? Red around the mirror suggests fire which ignites as potential becomes something from the black void.--This piece is unframed, but has finished edges and is ready to hang.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:16 W x 16 H x 0.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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I tell people that I paint God’s mistake which I know is controversial whether you are deeply religious or the opposite such as atheist. Yet my work is not about God, religion or atheism. My art is about the trauma associated with the inescapable relationship that mortality has with innocence. Our birth is not the intent of mortality, but it necessarily creates our personal annihilation. This personal destiny leaves each of us vulnerable to condemning our connection with innocent others who “created us to die” without our permission. Our “error” is our ownership of blame for mortality which is not the power over death; it is our power over cruelty. This inescapable destiny is where my art begins its expression(s). MY ART I use the ancient form of 2-D art to represent TIME as broken yet unfinished and continuing. Like the backside of a hung painting, we are absent before our birth and brought into reality through “others” who have marked our canvas of life already. Once born we see ourselves reflected on the "front side" of life yet witness our previous absence. My art examines this division as the relationship between hope and trust relevant to innocence. The change that each of us becomes by birth is a natural expression from life that we can perceive as a tradition of change. My art celebrates this with my rotation of mediums, vivid colors, energetic brush strokes, narratives of time-conflict, emotional dichotomies, vortex compositions showing our inescapable connection to a fractured reality, rhetorical word-play, and weapons symbolizing our relationship with mortal vulnerability. My “signature” is broken mirrors that capture the WITNESS as part of my art reminding us of our entitlement to mortal existence.
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