Brian Burris: Process abstracts |
| I've been painting twenty-three years of death and loss and abandonment. I do abstracts, 'aleatory' invocations. Process layering: process abstract. Paint, distressed, abraded and caustic: metaphor, of psychological dissolution, the summum of id, ego and superego, An archetypal landscape of above and so below, and the horizon that is our awareness; this dissolute world: darkness, light, and the portals between. A codex, in three acts.. Division: extreme and mean ratio: allegorical proportion— deviations, characterized by declinations on the peripheral, the edges of awareness disintegrating; stark, deteriorated fields in contrast metaphor for the summum of the human psyche (wherein lies the ego? Brief twilight between?) ..depicted in extreme and golden mean, primordial semiotics: A corruption of all things in balance, ratio suffering slight asymmetry and declination, destruction of the partitioning of hierarchies of self. Dominion—sphere, arc waxing the repression of traumatic memory (the traumatic initiatory crisis, to die and have one’s vision of reality transformed, to pass into the interrelatedness of all things to become nameless with no room for want) schism and segregation of the emotive aspect becoming a presence in and of itself.. the sleeper which moves in twilight, monster, demon.. however walled-off it may be, still looming. Dominion promises immortality. Striae: vertical striations sign and sigil—of control.. of force terrible and glorious as Rome and sordid as rutting Mother Babylon, force in tension, intolerance equilibrium, between desolation, atonement.. Baudelaire wrote: Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through a forest of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. I paint the forest. |




