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Narcissis and Echo
27 x 34 | $2800

Brian Taylor
Oil on Canvas
In considering the recognizable image, two things happened. The image lent itself to a narrative form and profoundly, it resisted my understanding. What the eye sees is not always, what the mind understands, there is sometimes a lapse. I used this time gap as an element in the paintings.

The resulting "stories" are caught in a place where one can deduce connections between images but also result in a cognitive flux at the moment image(s) are recognized. An image form, whether raised to the level of symbol or existing as itself is never fixed. In this way these paintings are also allegorical, ideas and thoughts are seen through the images.

This assertiveness in seeing is made more evident by the reductive manner in which I have painted the pictures. Forms “colored in” stand beside other forms and produce a picture plane appearing to thrust forward. Space in the picture plane is alluded to by choice of color, by forms which overlap, illusive techniques of size and objects vanishing.

For me, painting is a daily record. I paint the things one would include in a memoir or journal. These are things, which strike me as mysterious, beautiful and human.