Immersion

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Comment by Resident Curator on May 17, 2015 at 2:50pm

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Immersion is a terrifying and spectacular piece which takes advantage of dramatic proportion and compositional scale. When I came across it on the site I didn’t at first identify it with your other paintings that use the natural delineations of birch plywood grain.  These shapes seem much more organic and atmospheric- offering a cool, hazy depth within the picture plane.  It also took me a few seconds of viewing before I made out the cars, which are enveloped by the cascading pile of overlapping shapes.  They appear collectively as an undulating heap; suggesting a tsunami that is neither obviously synthetic nor completely natural.   The giant arching top of the pile brilliantly invokes Hokasai’s Great Wave at Kanagawa in simultaneously presenting a beautiful force and ruthless threat.  This ambiguity sets up a narrative that offers a chilling encounter with the small human presence.