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Hint of an Echo 2020-2022
Untitled, 2022 Acrylic on canvas mounted to ACM panel 29" (73.5cm) #10.5.21
Born of a desire to create something new with pigment on a two dimensional surface these works were developed at the intersection of art and science. Following a path of investigation between ideas, materials and nature I believe I have discovered a new way to materialize light with just paint on a two dimensional surface. From one simple idea emerged a series of experiments, then proof of concept, from which emerged subsequent ideas, all of which led to a continuation of the investigation in this manner for the first year of the pandemic. I have since returned to this work off and on over the past 18 months.
Some present a focal point of energy projecting from within that follows the viewer’s line of sight while others glow as a mass of energy and light that shifts as the person moves across the room. Meanwhile others are presented flat so that the viewer may experience them in the round, all the while with an illusory depth that seems to rest in front of or behind the actual picture plane. Because they react to the viewer’s line of sight, at any given point in time, each viewer will be having a unique experience. Aesthetically, I am interested in a simple abstract essence, one that takes on a life of it’s own. Light and sound posses the same properties and thus can both produce echos. Light echoes, it reverberates, it hovers, it projects back from what seems to be an internal source of energy. Hence the title: Hint of an Echo To see other examples from this body of work and to learn more about them please use the contact link above. |