Selection of paintings (2019-2022)

“These four are, in my opinion, the best of the group. Here’s what I get from them without knowing what process you’ve gone through and not knowing too many photography terms..

These photos are abnormally focused on a speechless, mysterious object in a location-less place. There’s nothing familiar or recognizable, yet that comes with its own manifestation of comfort.

Darkness being exposed is a sight that everyone has inside but don’t often think about – what you see when you close your eyes or when you stand up too fast – a paradox of blind sight.

Darkness with shards of light, it reminds me of the pinhole, the real mechanism inside the camera. It has that foreign touch of its own technology. Visually, it looks like a partial download, but it is wholly complete in itself.

Lost. Quite, how am I seeing this? How did I get here? It’s a fragment of visualization that has sight-resilience in existing as long as a still photo. It’s uncanny (Heimlich/unheimlich).

It’s what we already know is there without looking – it’s the actual process of sight plus what your brain associates and assumes to complete an image, but it’s created by you artificially. It’s perfect in the anti-design respect because it defies the natural instinct to check your periphery or to make something comprehensible. When you check your periphery, you lose that half-download of sight as it becomes a whole new image. This creative apparition is just optimal enough not to ruin the peripheral when you center and stage it.”

Aiden C. Keenan