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“Using an amorphous sense of place in painting, and lyrical language and rhythm in poetry, I explore how color, light,
and shadow affect our sense of time, space, and materials. Associations between past and present arise from sparse, painterly, and reductive tech- niques in both disciplines. Paintings’ titles come from poems, and poetry is often triggered by paintings.”
“It seems natural to seek to understand the gestalt or the whole of our experiences
with the world. How do we occupy space? How accurate are our perceptions compared with the true nature of reality? Such a desire, however, limits and frustrates us. As nite creatures our faculties of perception grow, develop, and deteriorate over time. Even at our sharpest we are in uenced by countless factors relating to environment, culture, and our place in history. A claim to truly know or understand seems at best arrogant and at worst extremely dangerous. I try to explore the ever-shifting relationship between what we perceive and what we claim to know.”
Bart O’reilly