Special Projects: Christina's World, 2014

Christina's World

Christina's World is essentially an experimental self-portrait. It was designed using intuitive decision making, and when not censored, I believe that the results of an intuited painting can convey a truer representation of an artists inner-self than they might ever hope to depict by painting a traditional self-portrait.

Our jobs as artists, is to depict ideas. More often than not, those ideas are edited for consumption. We want to express an idea or convey a narrative, and anything that might get in the way of expressing or conveying exactly that narrative, almost always gets removed. My goal with this painting was to get out of my own way. I made decisions without thinking about them. I chose the content and arranged the composition using intuition alone.

This paintinng was exhibited twice before it was eventually dismantled and altered. It featured 92 individual canvases and not all of them survived the dismantling. Before being dismantled, it was exhibited at Red Bull House of Art in 2012 and Artprize in 2014.

Christina's World was completed during a 3-month residency with Red Bull House of Art in Detroit, MI.