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My art practice is a conversation with the timeless, the primal, and the elemental.
My art is concerned with the unifying qualities of light, and exploring flow and visual rhythms found in my study of Nature. My images are abstract, inclined towards clarity, simplicity, and a truthful response to all those disappearing, evanescent moments of experience. I pursue my practice with the intention of communicating the universes’ great interconnectedness and our own connections within it. The message throughout my work is that the world is luminous, and humanity is a part of this larger world, and that the concerns of art are part of, but not separate from, the system of forces that connects us with everything else. While my inspirations come from my study of watercourses, cloudscapes, mountains, trees, rocks, the sun, moon, and the changing weather, I am ultimately more interested in building up something from within, than extracting from without. I am always working towards that moment of ‘transformation’…from material to idea. Improvisational washes, splatters, pours, gestures, and drips all reside in my paintings, alongside patterns, calligraphic lines, and empty voids. I revel in surfaces that both actively absorb and reflect light, and in my process I allow the material elements to be exalted rather than disguised. I attempt to reduce form and light back to its own natural essence without contrivance and develop structures based on models in Nature. I allow the process to evolve through me intuitively, until that moment when a new image is brought forth.
To understand the meaning or significance of a thing, one must ‘become’ the thing, harmonizing one’s consciousness with it, and thereby feel joined with it. The world is beautiful and radiant. My work in the Arts is the result of my attempts to express this simple truth.
+Justyn Zolli 2011
My art is concerned with the unifying qualities of light, and exploring flow and visual rhythms found in my study of Nature. My images are abstract, inclined towards clarity, simplicity, and a truthful response to all those disappearing, evanescent moments of experience. I pursue my practice with the intention of communicating the universes’ great interconnectedness and our own connections within it. The message throughout my work is that the world is luminous, and humanity is a part of this larger world, and that the concerns of art are part of, but not separate from, the system of forces that connects us with everything else. While my inspirations come from my study of watercourses, cloudscapes, mountains, trees, rocks, the sun, moon, and the changing weather, I am ultimately more interested in building up something from within, than extracting from without. I am always working towards that moment of ‘transformation’…from material to idea. Improvisational washes, splatters, pours, gestures, and drips all reside in my paintings, alongside patterns, calligraphic lines, and empty voids. I revel in surfaces that both actively absorb and reflect light, and in my process I allow the material elements to be exalted rather than disguised. I attempt to reduce form and light back to its own natural essence without contrivance and develop structures based on models in Nature. I allow the process to evolve through me intuitively, until that moment when a new image is brought forth.
To understand the meaning or significance of a thing, one must ‘become’ the thing, harmonizing one’s consciousness with it, and thereby feel joined with it. The world is beautiful and radiant. My work in the Arts is the result of my attempts to express this simple truth.
+Justyn Zolli 2011
