Our Experiences & Our Designs
Our Experiences & Our Designs · 2024 · Cut paper, acrylic, and ink on paper · 22.5 x 30 x 0.018 in.
Blush-toned gestural ground with embedded cut-paper forms and two bold navy bars anchor this meditation on how lived experience shapes intention.
- Medium
- Cut paper, acrylic, and ink on paper
- Substrate
- Heavy drawing or printmaking paper, possibly Stonehenge or similar cotton rag paper
- Dimensions
- 22.5 x 30 x 0.018 in.
- Status
- Available
- Inventory
- AX-2024-002
- Scale
Drawn to scale from the recorded dimensions, against a sofa. Not a photograph of an installation.
From the series Stories Told Through Skin
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A warm blush field built from layered acrylic and impasto brushwork serves as the foundation for 'Our Experiences & Our Designs.' Beneath the surface, collaged cut-paper fragments emerge like cellular or botanical specimens; leaf-like lobes on the left dissolve into fragmented, hand-like forms at center-right, suggesting the biological residue of memory and process. Two horizontal bars of deep navy blue float above and below the composition's midline, functioning as deliberate interruptions: geometric, synthetic, and assertive against the organic turbulence surrounding them. The contrast between the raw gestural ground and these clean painted marks embodies the work's central tension; the push and pull between what accumulates naturally through experience and what we consciously impose through design. Rendered on heavy cotton rag paper, the work carries a quiet physicality; ridges of paint and the subtle relief of cut paper invite close looking, rewarding the viewer with shifting detail across the textured surface.