Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Paintings

I've been trying to finish a painting that I started 2 weeks ago. I'm a day or 2 away from finishing it. Due to some strange level of angst about this one, I've moved it out of my bedroom and into the living room to put some emotional and physical distance between us for a couple of days.

 I want these paintings to be a part of the articulation of my research. So far, from looking at them, I've noticed things that preoccupy me about carnival that I didn't realise before. The point of using my paintings is to communicate some of the more intangible and abstract things that underlie this study. Where words and photographs fail, in a way, these paintings capture something that happens between the lines. In terms of my stance on the transformation of space during Carnival; it’s more truthful to say, they capture something between street and myth.


Lapeyrose, conte on paper, 18" x 24"
Savannah, acrylic on canvas
Spirit, acrylic on canvas, 24"x36"

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