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Made Things

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Seeing without naming, understanding before recognizing, discovery instead of knowing. 

The objects of the world and the objects in art share the possibility of being perceived before they are categorized in our mind, to delay the naming of things so that you can see it.  The purpose of expanding this usually brief period of analytical confusion is so that we can experience something independent of the meaning we attach to it and in doing this, for that short time, we may also understand that the viewer and the viewed are aspects of the same substance. 

The place between abstractions and representation, where abstraction can give way to representation and vise versa where the perceptual ambiguity can be attenuated is what I am exploring in painting. Giving this experience time, space, and place allows familiar things to be seen anew.  This is the​ root of imagination and it is how we imagine our world into existence.

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