Ian Pines
My work is personal, intuitive, and psychological: my paintings
are rapidly metamorphosing mirrors of primordial oil. Yet
out of the paint on canvas emerges much artistic as well as
anthropological and cosmological significance. The flurries of
brushstrokes heaped onto one another allude to the uncertainty
created by our overstimulated environment. Whatever is
struggled for is lost in the chaos of our corrosive surroundings.
Nonetheless, we continue to develop consequential things—
however unintentional and ephemeral they may be—on account
of our tenacity and cosmic luck.
We are pulled in countless directions by telecommunications,
quick transportation, and other complicating automation in
our lives, so much so that the feeling of what it is to be inside
a body is dulled by the anxiety of having to pay attention to
myriad simultaneous demands. This disrupted state, along
with the monstrosity of new machinations that cause pollution
and violence, points to something undeniable: grafting technology
to the human mess is a clumsy process.