Fluidity of the moment
We are fluid creatures. Constantly changing. Constantly shifting.
All that really exists is the moment, which is a fluid changing structure. Beginning as a photographer I was fascinated by the ability of a camera to invent a fixed moment. Simply by setting the shutter speed I could compress anywhere between 1/500oth of a second to three hours into a single moment. However the single moment isn’t real it’s simply a recording of light. Painting is no different it takes gestures over time and presents them as one concise image.
The abstract expressionist attempted to express emotion rather than showing it pictorially. Each gesture, each stroke has a great release of emotion. It is released and expressed in the moment, but this does not mean it is recorded. We are fluid. Our emotions are always changing. Any painting created in this manner must express this fluidity.
Painting is a meditation that expels emotion and allows the mind to rest. This series does not attempt to express any emotion but rather celebrate life and being. Because these paintings take place over time they are a layering of many emotions as they are expressed and freed. Each painting represents a compression of time ranging from three months to one week. They are composed of multiple layers representing the process through which my mind settled from an emotional state to a meditative one.
Jackson Pollock says “ a method of painting is a natural growth out of a need.” My process has grown out of a need for meditation and expression. These paintings are reductive. They are limited around the horizontal and vertical axis. This has allowed for an intuitive composition process where one gesture or mark demands the next. Each gesture is a result of its predecessor creating a rhythmic flow during production; ultimately resulting in an atmospheric expression of the creation of a moment.
Noah Kalos
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