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Meandering
A VIEW ON CREATION, PROCESS, SUBJECT AND CONTENT
The Meandering series came about in 2009 for the purpose of changing from painful burdensome inhumanity series to another world where pure aesthetics and beauty reside.
This is where the beauty of color, coupled with graceful linear movements, interact with each other in quiet repose and peaceful proximities that leave a trail behind of passing moments that was once present.
I was responsible for bringing the Armenian Genocide to life in my art, sometimes at a large scale. The savage content and imagery became overwhelming. I needed to find an image that brought lightness and joy.
Finding the answer didn't take long as I anxiously sought something peaceful and pleasurable. Coincidentally I came across a monoprint of mine titled Figurative Meanderings (SeeRight side for image) that received Honorable Mention Award. In it was an inspirational movement of rhythm and joy that seemed perfect for my new series of monoprints.
EARLY MEANDERINGS Blead Monoprint 29.5" h x 41.5" w
The movement of lines printed with a painted rope, surprisingly configured into a broken silhouette of a nude woman with her back to me. However, it was the undulating lines that conveyed the essence of what I was vaguely searching, left me with a new inspirational world to explore that would be titled the Meandering series.
Looking forward to creating an image had to include graceful, rhythmic, undulating linear image of movements —of life. The background color sets the tone, and visual context. Time and space coupled with relational proximities of different distances of intimacy to one another indicates a relative distance, such as far or close. The graceful character of every undulating form passing each other against a background of color, moves ever so slowly and quietly, without a hint of discomfoort from the another. Collectively they all express the realm of harmony and the eternal passing of time.
John Avakian, 2024
SEE Slide show below
FIGURATIVE MEANDERINGS Blead Monoprint 29.5" h x 41.5" w