Extraction painting IX 2025 – 40 x 30cm, acrylic, pencil on canvas
The way mark making records physical engagement with the medium echoes the tradition of Abstract Expressionism. But the scale shifts everything, these are anti-heroic canvases that do not engulf the viewer, demanding less physical but psychological space.
A 40 x 30cm format invites a different relationship: closer, more private, almost diaristic. It’s confrontational in a quieter way, less about dominating space and more about intimate reckoning.
Architectural or spatial suggestion in the composition, comes with dark masses evoking enclosure, threshold, or horizon. There’s an imlicit environmental response that feels tied to place or experience rather than pure formal exploration.
So perhaps it’s less about grand heroic gesture and more about sustained, personal engagement with disorder/extraction as an ongoing, embodied practice rather than a singular breakthrough. The lineage is there; Abstract Expressionism, but the temperature and intent feel distinctly more uncertain, less triumphal.