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Comment by Resident Curator on December 27, 2012 at 3:44pm

Curator's Comments:

Experiencing these works on a digital computer monitor no doubt detracts from the sensory experience of being enveloped or overcome by an object in space by it's sheer scale and haptic totality.  But I would contend there is an equivocal  intimacy in viewing images on a smaller platform.  I always prefer to experience artwork in person if giving the option, but while some conceptual and formal aspects are forfeited in space and translation, not all is lost.  I see a wonderful manipulation of color and organic surface manipulation in this still picture. Amorphous clouds of pigment come up against more defined biomorphic edges in a fluid interplay between occupied and unoccupied space.  I also detect a rhythmic horizontal movement, or shift, in color temperature and saturation. The pale yellow-green on the left deepens into a blue gray veil. As suggested by the accompanying narrative, the piece itself speaks to the distance that must remain between corporeal form and the primal desire ( the heart) of creation; breathing life into inanimate form.  In some manner we, as artists, all wrestle with the space in between.