While I admit painting can be tenuous when it comes to production, sometimes the process of painting is a dynamic and fluid activity that leads to playful results.
This painting, like Carnalis (2019), is one of active impression. An emphasis on the texture of paint and brushstrokes, this work focuses on application of color over strict forms and recognizable imagery. This is my favorite style of painting, and I think it shows. The motion of brushstrokes swim around the painting and are very lively. They texture of the paint is applied thick and has high viscosity revealing deep texture in the strokes.
Trametes versicolor (Turkey Tail), 2021. Oil on Canvas (16"x 20").
The colors are limited and vibrant, and applied in patterns that dot and dash in reverberating waves. The whole painting has a feeling of vibration, and captures an essence of the subject matter in a way that is hyper-idealized, less objective and more expressive. This contrasts with the typical way we experience Turkey Tail bracket fungi, as static and non-assertive organisms.
"Our descriptions warp and deform the phenomena we describe, but sometimes this is the only way to talk about features of the world: to say what they are like but are not."
Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, 2020.
By altering the way we perceive and reconstruct our surroundings through mindful attention, we can learn how different aspects of life intersect. By exploring new ways of looking at something banal or familiar, we can see the beauty of things in a new way.
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