Still Lives
"Just as aesthetic freedom lies in the playful contemplation of things...Elsewhere the aesthetic attitude towards an object is characterized by the condition that we do not ask anything of the object, especially no satisfaction of our serious needs, but content ourselves with the enjoyment of contemplating it."
-Freud, S. (1905). Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious.
These paintings are still lives of notebooks of the cosmos, a folder of memories, and giant odes to loose leaf notes. I am interested in these objects as stand ins for memory because they literally contain information and yet they remain inaccessible. What would be Sponge Bob’s nightmares if they involved abstract expressionism and banal 2d objects? These enlarged painterly replicas of semi two dimensional images aim to connect us to something unknown. They are painted fast or blown up to show how we look at the world: these objects/thoughts stand in our vision for only a quick moment.
-Freud, S. (1905). Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious.
These paintings are still lives of notebooks of the cosmos, a folder of memories, and giant odes to loose leaf notes. I am interested in these objects as stand ins for memory because they literally contain information and yet they remain inaccessible. What would be Sponge Bob’s nightmares if they involved abstract expressionism and banal 2d objects? These enlarged painterly replicas of semi two dimensional images aim to connect us to something unknown. They are painted fast or blown up to show how we look at the world: these objects/thoughts stand in our vision for only a quick moment.
