glimpse / overhear

The process of this painting was very reminiscent of my first project in which I outlined the lines present on a piece of wood. The material, namely the piece of wood, was essential to the way in which the project took shape. The lines I traced were informed by the material in question; my contribution is the choice of color and material that I used on the piece of wood.

Similarly in this painting, I became intrigued by the canvas material, making shapes following the structure of the canvas itself: a closer look at the canvas allow you to notice the miniature and informal grid that the cloth provides.

I was also interested in using a palette knife rather than a paint brush to apply the paint. I wanted to explore the application of varying thicknesses of paint rather than the thin layer I generally use. The colors are just a palette that I have been drawn to recently, and can be seen in many of the works I’ve done throughout the semester.

The various rectangles provide glimpses of possible worlds creating through paint, as opposed to the blank canvas surrounding them. They are passages of color, potentially inciting different moods. Some of these shapes also bleed out of the canvas, suggesting that the field of vision proposed by the canvas is simply cropped from a larger condition. Leaving traces of the material used (the canvas) uncovered is also a theme that I have been interested in. The idea of showing the process, and having the canvas not be simply a vessel for the artwork but itself being part of it. Treating the painting more like a drawing in that sense, where the white space is intentional and significant.