Over the last few years, I’ve completed a series of primarily blue abstract paintings, exploring sensory imagined space. The work describes an ethereal night sky, or, the moment a great wave breaks, as a perceptual meditation on the fleeting nature of time.
I start by layering thin oil washes of intense color on wooden panels to create a liquid smooth ground, not unlike ceramic glaze. My interest in ornamental arts, such as beading and lacework, as well as Islamic and Delft tiles, Mogul paintings and children’s string games come into play. Manipulating the ebb and flow of paint, I weave spidery delicate lines and tiny dots. Stroke by stroke small marks accumulate to form elaborate configurations
In recent paintings, loosely titled Trace, I imagine a glimpse of what’s left behind, a momentary pause, like when Icarus falls unnoticed from the sky. I envision an amorphous location where land and sea merge: or, the dislocation between where one thing begins and another ends. Other paintings allude to a state of weightlessness: floating, flying, and most particularly, dreaming, free from the constraints of gravity and time.
Lindsay Walt
Brooklyn, New York
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