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Buildings
My paintings of abandoned buildings explore the state of stagnancy. Having lived in the same city for most of my life. I have passed certain vacant buildings often on my way from one place to another. After a time I began to appreciate that these buildings, now deserted and forgotten, were once places that served their former inhabitants a purpose.
What fascinates me about these buildings is that despite their stagnant state, some kind of life in them still exists. I came to realize these abandoned structures are like patients in a coma who do not have a voice. With no one to stand up for them, they have been left to decay; their fate is to either be demolished by time, or else be revived through restoration.
Through my paintings, I am attempting to give these abandoned and neglected places a new voice and recognition. Perhaps through painting them they will be given a second life; and by presenting their various states of decay from a different perspective, they might be given a longer thought.
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