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Meandering
A VIEW ON CREATION, PROCESS, SUBJECT AND CONTENT
The Meandering series was conceived in 2009 for the purpose of change: from painful burdensome inhumanity issues to another world where aesthetics, tranquility, and beauty reside.
I was responsible for bringing the Armenian Genocide to life in my art, sometimes on a large scale. The savage content and imagery became overwhelming. I needed to find a place that brought lightness and joy.
This is where beauty of color, coupled with graceful linear movements compliment each other in quiet proximities to each other leaving behind a trail of passing moments that was once present.
Finding the answer didn't take long as I anxiously sought something rhythmic and pleasurable. Coincidentally I came across a monoprint of mine titled Figurative Meanderings (See Right side for image) that received an Honorable Mention Award. It was an inspirational image that seemed perfect for my new series of monoprints.
EARLY MEANDERINGS Blead Monoprint 29.5" h x 41.5" w
The movement of the painted rope configured into a fragmented silhouette that appeared to look like the back of a nude woman. The undulating linear contours conveyed an essence of what I was vaguely searching. It left me with a new inspirational image to explore that would be titled the Meandering series.
Looking forward to creating an image had to be graceful, rhythmic, undulating linear movement. The background color sets the tone. Time and space are coupled with relational proximity of distances, safe and intimate to one another. The graceful character of every undulating form passing each other against a background of color, undulate ever so slowly and quietly, without a hint of discomfort to one another. Collectively they express the realm of beauty, grace and the eternal passing of time.
John Avakian, 2024
SEE Slide show below
FIGURATIVE MEANDERINGS Blead Monoprint 29.5" h x 41.5" w