Amor Fati, 2011. 64 x 42 in. Oil and Synthetic Polymer Resin on Canvas.
This is the first painting I've made in my new studio in Brooklyn. This fact in and of itself seems to bestow a certain significance onto the painting. But what?
The first painting in a new space establishes a frame or a context for subsequent paintings made in that space. Frames are important: they provide the necessary boundaries for content to exist. Kant reminds us that without certain basic frames, say time or space, experience itself cannot exist. Not all frames carry this epistemic significance, but no matter how trivial a frame is, it provides some vantage point into unframed immensity of the universe. One frame this painting makes possible is that of a point of comparison, both stylistic and temporal, for those which are yet to come.
Chris I like this a lot. It surprised me when I saw it was on canvas - it looks like it's on some sort of transluscent mylar or something. Either way, looks good. - Amy T
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