MELTING INTO AIR:
Layered Abstractions of Johnson’s Pasture
Exploring Place and Person
All that is solid melts into air, all that is profane is sanctified, and we are at last compelled to face with sober senses our real conditions of life, and our relations with the world.
“The revolutionary task is to be present to the present--to see the world as it is and act accordingly.”
Joseph Flately
If we are to survive the next 50 years, we must reverse the way re relate to the broader world. Rethinking our relationship to the land we inhabit, focusing upon how the world we see is a product of our own social, cultural and perceptual constraints, and correcting our self-destructive habits involves re-opening to more comprehensive view of the world.
These paintings present such an opening. Gestural form, implied structure, and layered meaning explore the concept and implications of external object as necessarily subjective.
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