Point In Time

Robert Piatek

This painting imagines an instant in the ever changing, ever moving infinite and chaotic cosmos. The painting process begins in a similar random fashion. The paint, or charcoal is applied with great energy and sweeping thin strokes of brush or knife or stick until the canvas is filled with intersecting organic shapes. The process stops here for a time while I visually take in all of the gestures until I find elements that seem to work together. Form here color is applied in another round of energetic spurts. Color choices and placement come intuitively and are just experiments to see what might work with changes occurring on the fly. Most of the application of paint for this piece was done using various pallet knife shapes along with oil sticks. This process results in many overlaping layers of paint which creates texture and depth.

2024

38"x44"