About this site:
Subscribers will notice every few months or every few years the theme of this website changes. The content largely stays the same unless a significant grammatical error is noticed later on. The site started as an exploration of painting at a time when I was working in the contemporary art sector when the main focus was on critical writing and conceptual art–and I was primarily working with paint. In general, painting was relegated to the sidelines. A couple of years on, painting seems to be picking up; that’s when I decided to branch out and include photography, architecture and self published work. All of which I find extremely fascinating. I want to know what other people were/are up to and to comment on what they were/are up to, or/and to simply enjoy. I hope you do too.
About me:
I have long had an interest in photography—the chemical and mechanical aspects and the particular way photographs capture time at once both real and illusory. With painting, I can be filled with awe at a painter’s technical skill, or moved by the patience and emotional energy required to render compositions. I paint to prove that I exist, that I can actually impact the external world.
I am addicted to the paradox of reality. This is what I explore, this is what drives me to be autodidactic in creation and continuous study.
In general, what I find fascinating about art is that a single object can contain multiple realities; which, isn’t about the artist or the object, but about phenomenology (the philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness). So, in addition to enjoyment, I relate to art through a social and philosophical lens to try to understand the human condition and what role creativity has in building culture and identity (e.g. the concepts ‘I’ and ‘other’). I engage in broad themes like art and disability or art and politics or art and social inclusion: residential and public buildings, commemorative and public art, objects in museums, galleries, and hospitals – all are signals about the ethics, norms etc. of a society/culture.
Michelle Molyneux (Kopczyk)
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