Unfolding Spark
Keegan O’Rourke
Oil on canvas
www.keeganorourke.com
Available. Contact artist:
keegan.orourke@gmail.com
COMMENTS BY THE ARTIST Little
things may slowly or quickly, immediately or exponentially, with
oscillation or without, become gigantic in proportion and effect.
Reverberations of small changes create dramatic relationships between
the forces of the world. Cascades flower out of tiny trickles… species
go extinct as the environment alters, populations are separated and new
species form, geology meteorology and biology all become reliant on one
another, and change with one another. Rocks and bones and stars and dust
and oil and bits. This fluctuation, this alteration, this change… goes
down to the tiniest scales (to the very boiling fabric of space-time
itself) and up to the largest, until knit from its inconstancy is the
reality we have before us. Unstable, uncertain, diverse, strange, new,
and at once ancient… guided by provocative inalienable laws. Reality is
solid and melting, both there and not there. It is a thought experienced
in astounding corporeality.
My work is an investigation and plunge into this
richly woven and tangled web of systems. I have adopted a sort of
baroque enthusiasm of excess and detail, guided by overarching movements
of matter and energy. In painting, both nonrepresentational forays into
surface and form and clear dreamlike spaces are my favorite and
occasionally intersecting modes. With photography I allow myself to be
swept up into particular small spaces or large landscapes in both
natural and man-made environments where I can experiment with
orientation and composing logic. Both practices inform each other and
across all mediums I am constantly trying to make and build things to
find more of the world and engage myself within it, and with others.
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