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Tough Break Painting
United States
Painting, Oil on Wood
Size: 25.2 W x 19.5 H x 1 D in
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If you'd told me a year ago that I'd be making a basketball-themed painting, I wouldn't have believed you, but here we are. Last year I ended up watching most of the Celtics and Warriors facing off in the Finals, which led to - at first occasionally and then more frequently - following the Celtics 22-23 run right up until their disappointing Game 7 loss to the Heat. During that time, MA legalized online sports betting - aggressively marketing to would-be gamblers with borderline absurd "free money" offers to get people onboard, so naturally, I had to see what all the fuss was about (I was able to make a clean break before they got their hooks in me :)). What I found during my "experimentation" with sports betting was that it could make watching a typical game either much more exciting or much more frustrating depending on how often you expected to win. I couldn't help but become a bit obsessed with the concept of odds, risk and how they define our lives inside and outside of the narrow scope of sports - both the utility and futility of scouring statistics and individual matchups to try to predict an outcome when, really, anything could happen. I found that while there are, of course, never guarantees in life or in sports, statistical analysis and personal experience are almost always useful and usually lead to a safer bet - like Jason Tatum hitting 30 pts. in a night vs. a bench player who's never in a game for more than 10 min.- but sports injuries are one thing no one can predict. NBA players have teams of experts around them at all times safeguarding them from injury on and off the court, but the most dependable, talented player can land their foot on someone else's foot coming off a jump shot and play terribly the rest of the game, end the season for their team or end their entire, promising career in a flash as a rookie.
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Painting:Oil on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:25.2 W x 19.5 H x 1 D in
Frame:Black
Ready to Hang:Yes
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I see each of my paintings as a dense collection of layered missteps guided by a single underlying intention. In most of my work, I’m attempting a semi-realistic interpretation of an imagined environment, employing realism and abstraction in a way that gives the impression of a scene on the verge of collapse. The photographic source material I use serves as both a jumping off point and something to fight against. I try to glean from the source only that which resonates with me and dispose of the rest so as to avoid slavish depiction. The ideal result is a faint echo or a total reconstruction of what is observed, anchored by recurring themes of nostalgia, my own existential anxieties and the corruption of human memory. I view the painting process as a form of self-examination – the end product’s value lying in the thoughts, emotions and memories I’ve projected onto the objective source.
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