Bronson Leiro
Nylic
I am looking for work that brings me to the present moment and attracts an awareness of the body and its relation to the space around it. In an era of digitized information, our minds and intentions are overloaded into states of anxiety and disassociation. I am working towards methods to help our experience that engage the mind and the senses. Rather than attempting to negate all stimuli and focus directly on one aspect, the mind can be allowed to observe and become comfortable with its situation. My work aims to help re-posture the mind so that the viewer may reinitiate with reality on their own terms.
Within this work, Nylic, a mirage of reflection and geometric abstraction carries the mind through layers of non-articulate expression. Pronounced areas of colors contrast visually and emotionally with changes in depth offered by the repositioning of multiple images. The sharp angles give distinct changes in direction for the mind to follow and find a sense of structure. This work began with an actual photograph of acrylic sheets on a painted wall. This slight familiarity of the acrylic edges and painted textures allows the mind to relate to the situation and step into the accentuated atmosphere of the piece.
For myself, a composition such as this comes from an open-minded collaboration with my editing software. I stumbled upon these bold color forms by using the incorrect tool in photoshop. Fortunately, this is a digital experience, and I could go back to the previous work if I wanted to. Nevertheless, my interest in the photo expanded into a hunt for digital artifacts. All the colors and shapes have appeared from within the photograph itself. That is to say that the colors and forms are of the same data from the photograph, just with multiple filters placed over them. Like viewing the sun through just x-ray, radio, or gamma and getting different information from the same source data. What is left of the photograph are the textures of the wall and sharp angles of the acrylic sheets, which now stand as material alongside the splotches of visualized data provided by the software. Throughout the process I express myself and find levels of release through the creation of the work. As the work realizes itself, I feel more of a guide that brings it into existence.