You know the one. The thought that lives in the back of your mind regardless of what else you are doing. The situation you cannot resolve, the feeling you cannot release, the thing you have turned over so many times it has worn a groove. You have tried to let it go. You have tried to accept it. It is still there, circling.
This painting is that.
The pale ground opens the canvas wide, pink and cream laid broadly, a quieter field than most of the Wild collection. Into it the lavender settles, soft and unresolved. The black mass on the left is the one area of full density and contrast, heavily loaded, the thing that does not soften no matter how much pale colour surrounds it. Magenta arrives in the upper centre in faster marks with visible drips, more insistent than the lavender but still not conclusive. The yellow sits in the lower centre, warm and contained inside a loose circular mark, the thing that keeps going around, held in orbit rather than released. White marks and thin looping lines move through the lower field, almost like handwriting, the record of something being worked through without resolution. The right side opens into near-white, the least resolved area of the canvas, the space where the answer would be if there were one.
The painting does not offer resolution because the experience it holds does not offer it either. What it offers instead is the honesty of showing the thing exactly as it is: still there, still circling, still real.
Featured on AATONU. From the Wild collection, 2024.
From the artist:
"The idea or the situation that you just cannot resolve, let go of, or accept. Sitting in the back of your mind."
You know the one. The thought that lives in the back of your mind regardless of what else you are doing. The situation you cannot resolve, the feeling you cannot release, the thing you have turned over so many times it has worn a groove. You have tried to let it go. You have tried to accept it. It is still there, circling.
This painting is that.
The pale ground opens the canvas wide, pink and cream laid broadly, a quieter field than most of the Wild collection. Into it the lavender settles, soft and unresolved. The black mass on the left is the one area of full density and contrast, heavily loaded, the thing that does not soften no matter how much pale colour surrounds it. Magenta arrives in the upper centre in faster marks with visible drips, more insistent than the lavender but still not conclusive. The yellow sits in the lower centre, warm and contained inside a loose circular mark, the thing that keeps going around, held in orbit rather than released. White marks and thin looping lines move through the lower field, almost like handwriting, the record of something being worked through without resolution. The right side opens into near-white, the least resolved area of the canvas, the space where the answer would be if there were one.
The painting does not offer resolution because the experience it holds does not offer it either. What it offers instead is the honesty of showing the thing exactly as it is: still there, still circling, still real.
Featured on AATONU. From the Wild collection, 2024.
From the artist:
"The idea or the situation that you just cannot resolve, let go of, or accept. Sitting in the back of your mind."
