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Artists'
Statement
The
paintings Ian and I created together for
this abstract series are pure creations.
Pure in the context with no ulterior motives.
We garnered the idea to create the series
through our shared love of art and the
process of creating.
We spent hours upon hours sharing the
process in the heat of an abandoned warehouse,
often with sweat dripping from our brow
onto the canvas. We often had to return
home to find the most efficient methods
of removing paint from hair, body and
clothes; surely a labor of love. It was
a very freeing experience to be able to
create for no other purpose then the creation
itself.
The body of work expresses what we were
feeling at the time we dripped the paint.
Some splatters are slow and lackadaisical,
while others are charged with the power
of the moment. The further into the series
we painted, the more free we became with
our experimentation.....not of medium,
but of application.
The process kept our egos in check as
we shared the canvas and the paint. Ian's
painting would overlap my painting and
my painting would overlap Ian's and so
on and so forth until we both decided
it was finished. In some paintings, you
can't even see the beginning.
It was a wonderful experience and I very
much look forward to the next series with
Ian.
James
Mendes
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