Bradley Butler - Volume #3
The imagination is a powerful tool and seldom do we ever reach our full potential in using it. With my current body of work I am attempting to capture a feeling of being on the edge of what is real and entertaining the thought of the unconscious mind spilling out into the world around us. Déja vu, the spaces between sleep and our conscious lives, as well as the everyday strange occurrences in which we see something that is not there; these concepts are combined in a series of artworks largely made up of abstract paintings. The paintings convey the feeling we get when something passes by our periphery and when turning to look, nothing can be found. In one sense they can be thought of as landscapes, in another... mindscapes. The main goal of the work is to engage people in questioning the imagery in front of them. Objects seem to surface out of the abstract composition but never quite form into anything tangible. Once something is seen it fades away into abstraction, leaving the viewer constantly searching for an image in the deep layers of transparent pigments.







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