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A VIEW ON CREATION, PROCESS, SUBJECT AND CONTENT
The Meandering series came into being for the purpose of change from a series of burdensome subject matter, that were fraught with anxiety and sadness. My prints and I had entered a world of violence, terror, exile, and wholesale murder. and injustice. Although there were many aesthetically transcending moments and technical achievements during these periods, the time had come to leave these troubling series of printings behind: Sociopolitical, Lightness of Being, Solitary Human Forms, and The Armenian Genocide.
Where was I to go to offset the inhumanity and suffering depicted in these prints? I was responsible for bringing them to life in my art. The savage content and imagery had become overwhelming, had taken a toll on me, weakening the impetus that was once a driving force in bringing the Armenian Genocide into the public arena of art. The answer was closer than I thought when an unusual image-making problem became a solution, and an inspirational idea for the Meandering series.
In 2002 after many, many a printing procedure, I noticed the residual ink left on the plate caught my attention. The faint image known as a "ghost", seemed interesting, and could be used as a background for beginning another print. The residual ink was was quickly transferred to BFK paper before the ink dried. I had no image in mind to complete the print, conceived with only one perfect over-print. Where was the solution to come from? My mind wandered hopelessly, when a nearby rope, used to tie rolled-up prints caught my eye. An exciting process unfolded— painting the rope a color and placing it in an interesting configuration over the "ghost" and, hoping for the best when it passed through the press.
EARLY MEANDERINGS Blead Monoprint 29.5" h x 41.5" w
To my delighted surprise, the two images merged together beautifully. The rope was transferred in a curlicue-like shapes, crisscrossing each other. It was beyond anything I had imagined. On an imaginary level, the image is something beyond the beauty of the abstract— suggested something humanistic and more— thus the title: Figurative Meanderings. Years later this print was awarded a MGNE Honorable Mention.
Fast forward to 2006, the Meanderings series began with a vivid memory of the undulating rope that inspired this subject to become a reality.
The Meanderings series was conceived against the horror and pain of inhumanity, by introducing graceful linear forms passing through rectangular windows of time and space. They, all share in the passing of time, through movement, and proximity, surrounded in a mood of background color. Their undulating character to one and another is enveloped by a field of color, Together they gracefully express peacefulness, and the eternal passing of time.
John Avakian, 2019
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FIGURATIVE MEANDERINGS Monoprint Framed 32.5" x 25.5"
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