Kaylie Abela
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143 Park Drive · Boston
860.967.6396
When I was a young child, my mother would entertain me by sitting me at the kitchen counter with a coloring book and crayons. At the time, I was adamant at staying in the lines. Almost two decades later, having turned in my crayons for acrylic paint, I now deliberately cross the boundaries of narrative imagery.
Artists have relationships with their work similar to that of a mother and child. Artists nurture their work, but also allow it to run its course when necessary. My most recent body of paintings employs this kind of love.
In the series Ice and its subsequent work (including First Born and Eglowsystems), ice is left to melt over beads of paint. I nurture the work by carefully preparing the surface of the canvas to both absorb the media enough to stain, and also to repel the water just enough for it to pool and evaporate. The results are mysterious marks of color that interact with one another spontaneously. Preliminary areas of raw paint are intuitively placed on the primed canvas, many times following my inclination towards a vertical, linear format. Since the ice is a main contributor to the imagery that evolves, resulting shapes are likely to stray from the initial laying of the paint.
The unpredictable nature of the ice denotes unforeseen, inevitable change. I do not manipulate the melting ice, just as I cannot control inevitability in life. Rather, I highlight the value of possibility and of chance.
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