Latex on canvas
24x24"
I'm furthering my experiences in painting and the different ways I can express the specific themes I've been dealing with in my work (e.i. space, time, the infinite, and ultimately questions of origins of both our art/art making, and our universe.) But furthermore, the topic in dealing with these subjects has been the theme of relationship and space particularly. Relation of the painting to the wall, and visa versa, and we as humans to the universe. One particular question that I keep in the back of my mind and contributes to my thinking of these pieces and in conjunction with relationship is, do I take part in God or does He take part in me? Do I invite Him into my life, or do I request to be apart of His much larger plan.
These "space" paintings, as I've kind of coined them for myself, are after something in particular, and that is that they are both representative and literal at the same time; and that is something I enjoy working out in my work and find relevant to my faith. These pieces are addressing space both representationally and literally in the sense that there is somewhat of an illusion of deep space within the frame, and at the same time they draw attention to the actual space that we all inhabit in their abject-hood (the minimal qualities of the pieces that declare space.) I equate this relationship to that of Christ, the logos, who was both fully God and fully man: representative of God and God Himself at the same time.
The horizon line is something that I have been using for some time now, and it has a deal of importance to me. In this piece the line/cutout depicted is vertical. But couldn't it still be a horizon? The earth is not flat after all. But the one thing that might be of the most importance is how there is now, with the hanging cutout strip, a factor of positive and negative space, one thing that, in a sense, creates the other by merely existing (like light and dark,) which brakes the frame in the traditional sense. The line through the middle is mirrored by the hanging piece, and reaches into the beyond. At the same time, and in the back of my mind, the imagery is somewhat reminiscent of a wound and the blood pouring from it, as well as a narrow opening.
(Note: these are rough images, and I would ask that you disregard the paint on the wall beneath the panting. It is not apart of the piece. The piece is not yet titled.)
