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Life, Prevailing, Boise State University Fall 2020 BFA Exhibition

Emptiness serves as a vessel for all else to be created. Stillness contains within it, infinite potential. And once this pulse of life begins, it echos further than we can ever reach.

Life, Prevailing looks towards symbiotic and interrelated relationships within our environment which have immeasurable consequence and connection to their surroundings. That which first appears to be independent, exists instead through a vast network of continuous and ever changing parts. These relationships may be invisible to the untrained eye, but expand into scope through acts of deep observation- The deeper you look, the more is revealed. 

The paintings begin as a dialogue with the subject, but soon respond more immediately to the hand and the marks themselves. The hand acts through intention, but bends to that which it cannot immediately see. A relationship is created between rational representation and abstraction, a dance between intention and mystery. Compounding further, the work operates both in response to my internal psychic state, and the historical time in which it is created.

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