"This dialogue with materials opens a pathway to discover hidden meaning or unearth something new." - Jason Hallman
Jason Hallman is a self-made global artist who draws from personal history, nature, architecture, and design. His work explores the inward journey of finding a home in oneself and experimenting with diverse forms, materials, and methods to excavate deeper hidden meaning. 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. From this intense energy of moving tectonic plates and exploding stars, a new story is birthed. We are the layers of our past and a continuously new waking form.
