Keeping

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A complete and fulfilled life can be wracked with insecurity. A child can be innocent and silly one moment and entirely serious the next. It is our reality that we do not function with singular absolute emotions. Society, however celebrates these absolutes in individuals. This false importance leads me in my desire to express the beauty of contrasts. My interest is to demonstrate the hard and soft parts of ourselves, whereby I regard the contradiction as one idea, one complete emotion rather than two. It is the resolution of opposites into a singular new identity, complete in itself, that is important.

These abstractions celebrate motion and borrow from past movements. With a focus on youth, identity, and consumism, and by employing contrasting graphic, expressive, and magnified pointillist elements, I attempt to illustrate the impact of natural emotional contradiction. In art I have always tried to connect to the world through beauty. Each work is an attempt to elegantly express the embodiment of paradox; a physical manifestation of conflicting desires communicated in an abstract arrangement of forms.

“Keeping”
oil and marker on salvaged refrigerator door
28 x 42 inches
2009