Painting is difficult. I have my senior group show to hang tomorrow, and wrote a mini-statement to go along with it (and am mainly posting it here so I don't lose it in the future)
The concept of permanence has been one of primary concern in my life and work since I have been dealing with losses of various calibers since I can remember. Half of the pieces on my wall were from a course in which I painted the same image - a photograph from a family vacation of me and family friends - all semester. Within these paintings, I investigated the photograph and the various emotional impacts I could suggest with the use of color and materials.
The other half of the pieces I have shown are based on memories and the idea of the "memorial": a thing that can (or is meant to) somehow embody a person's dedication or achievements. I am interested in how much weight and truth an object or a photograph can hold in terms of expressing the life or death of a person/relationship.
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