ART Habens
Joshua Healey Lapena
of world we live in. What is being consumed and what is in control are important in the relation of its space and time; two spaces and the same time. The illusion of depth, is like that of the same space for the same time, but one is a representation while the other is impossible. That objects appear to float in my paintings contradicts the idea of gravity. Their conception can be closer or further from their experience, but they are never in a duality. In the work with the cave, the engine has an even greater presence as the light on the water is made white. Some of the interior is reflected, but the thoughts of the spatial relations are suspended. Each area of the painting takes on a meaning of its own; like paintings within paintings, I like to get lost in the detail and somehow the overall composition comes together. Johnathan Wateridge is another painter who has affected the way I think about the environment, but he sets them up before painting them in oil. The context of what he is doing is different.
In 1984, H. G. Wells describes the language of doublethink, which I find particularly interesting. I think the abstract being representational or not representational is applicable to this concept. Doublethink is the process of deriving contradictions, like freedom is slavery, war is piece etc. from their objective truth. In Jung’ s psychoanalysis, I presume they cannot be eliminated, as both depend on the relation of the consciousness to the unconsciousness. Negation is used to find a solution to the trauma created by doublethink. That is, nature as represented includes what is human made, but its relation to that which is not human made is about difference and not
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