20 July 2025
Amulet: the logic that governs what this painting is becoming is fresher and less encumbered by achieving muscularity than anything surrounding it in the studio. These forms are ghostly (aside from the black squares, which may have to change) and in touch with negative space in a way that feels related to their guiding concern, which I suppose is memory. The ember of a thing from a faraway past still burning despite how small and foreign it might seem to me now. Something luminous and formative, yet dulled and disintegrating through its translation into paint (and therefore the present).