I am looking at other urban subject matter, perhaps looking at addictions and how indigenous youth might be effected in an urban setting. My process is a continuous starting and restarting journey.
Simply because the arctic is expansive and wild does not mean that it does not possess a life of its own; it just requires a different perspective that appreciates the quality of that emptiness and what it actually holds.
Solitude embraces you in this winter wonderland. All the artworks use a limited palette of white, grey, the occasional burnt brown. Less is indeed more.
Hafkenscheid’s presents a filmic dirge on his exiled and aging father. Andy Patton’s collection of large-scale paintings informed by ancient Chinese practices in calligraphy, dripping with poeticism.
Kaufman brings attention to increasingly fraught relationship between mortals and the natural world, as the human mind can create images of wonder, but also significantly contribute to the rampant deterioration of a once-thriving global ecosystem.
I wanted to believe that the show’s title, The Escape Club, might have a direct tie to fantasy in the Disney sense, serving as an invitation to go on some magical tour of, say, a Fleming Fantasia.