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A VIEW ON CREATION, PROCESS, SUBJECT AND CONTENT
The Meanderinghange series came into being for the purpose of changing from burdensome inhumanity series of prints to a world where pure aesthetics of beauty and color and graceful movement exist.
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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 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 were conceived to forget the horror and pain of my Armenian Genocide series of inhumanity. By introducing graceful colorful lines undulating in movements of color passing through a rectangular window of time and space represents a graceful passing of time in a relational proximity to one another without physical touching. What is touching however is the graceful character of peaceful movements of background color without any interference from another. Together they all express a peacefulness and harmony of an eternal passing of time.
John Avakian, 2019
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FIGURATIVE MEANDERINGS Monoprint Framed 32.5" x 25.5"
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