Third Leg
July 2022
Roy G Biv Gallery
Simmer After Boiling
2-person show
This work explores the movement of bodies and objects over time. In the work, past iterations of compositions and color choices remain visible alongside more developed parts of the painting. These residues of the work’s past shine through as evidence of how the painting changed. A hand that once held a coffee cup is moved further across the table, and the cup disappears. Parts of objects appear on a desk like fragmented records of their displacement over the course of a day. Where the shape of a house began to emerge now stand tall trees; the glowing windows bore yellow holes through the trunks.
A painting changes; so do I. I think
about the ways in which my environment shifts my body, how it effects my
movements. I wonder about the various iterations of myself if I did not live
under social systems that gain power from the manipulation of my body. Cultural
influences shape us over time in ways that we cannot always name. This series preserves
previous versions of the body, objects and environments that shift and solidify
each other over time.
