Jason Hallman
Just For Joy, 2024
Excavated/carved mixed-media on panel
60 x 60 in
152.4 x 152.4 cm
152.4 x 152.4 cm
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Each excavated art piece is made by layering twelve individual paintings with motivation, intention, patience, joy, freedom, and love, then carving into the layers to reveal a new work of...
Each excavated art piece is made by layering twelve individual paintings with motivation, intention, patience, joy, freedom, and love, then carving into the layers to reveal a new work of art. Each layer is a unique ecstatic act, sealed in time by its successor. Carving through the painted sediment and archaeology reveals fragments of history and ancestry. Drawing inspiration from the earth and its layers of life beneath us and the sky overhead holding stars, supernovas, the ‘big bang,’ we feel the motions in time and space that have created us.