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"Layers reflect meaning: underlying and implicit structure drive surface
image, and color serves that structure. Our every moment is layered, an
interplay between past, present and future; body, mind, spirit, feeling;
intention, interpretation, investment; acceptance, resistance,
reconstruction; persistence, despair, and hope.
My work is usually a process of discovery. Working physically with
canvas, paint and found materials allows me to access more subtle
dimensions of ordinary experience in a manner I cannot with speech or
writing. Language goes but one word at a time, one concept that belongs
more to the culture than to an individual. A painting presents a map of
territory only dimly understood.
I try to start with a bare impulse—even better, a head as empty as the
canvas."
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Title: Embryonic
Date: 2005
Size: 30" x 24" x 2"
Media: Mixed
From the Studio Collection of Fr. Bill Moore, SS.CC.
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Ken Johnson. All rights reserved. Reproduction of artwork in any form is strictly prohibited. |
