The Painting's Journey (2025)

The Painting's Journey (October 16th 2025)

 

The Painting’s Journey is a collaborative project that shifts the focus from art as an object to the viewing of an artwork as art creation.

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Here is the explanation I gave to the 13 participants:

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First, a painting is given to a participant for a couple weeks and in that time it is used as a writing prompt. Living with the piece for a small period of time, the participants are giv- en free reign to react and draw inspiration from the painting in whatever way feels natural, a passing glance that sparks a thought or a sustained investigation. After their time with the painting comes to an end, their writing is collected and the painting continues its journey to another home.

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Once all the writing is collected the painting will never be shown or photographed professionally again and will only exist publicly as the writing from it’s journey. The painting, now free from its obligation as a canonical artwork, can be gifted, left in an airport, destroyed, or any number of things that would otherwise be frowned upon for an artist to do with a piece in their body of work.

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The collected writing will be presented at a reading, open to the public. After the reading, the writing will live online and in a printed zine/book, that will be available at the reading with an accompanying drawing featuring an outline of the painting.

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By the end of the project, viewers can “view” the painting by imagining it, using the writing as a guide. Like a good book, the painting may even become more vivid in your imagination then it was in reality.

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This is my favorite kind of Art. Art with a murky sense of authorship, no clear medium and multiple identities.

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Link to Documentation of The Reading (10/16/25)