A Paper Bag Retaining the Memory of Fire Preserved
The black-washed ink hints of mist hidden distant mountain peaks finds a tactile resonance with the earthy tones of a humble paper enclosure. Presented in the stance of traditional Japanese Suiseki, the ebonized lacquered stand elevates the aesthetic hierarchy to reinforce hidden conceptual dissonance. Soil, wind, flames and water are not the distinct points of an elemental compass, but a catalytic cycle that flesh and mind recognize as the archetypes of mortal existence, bound together in perpetual marriage where death is not release but an ongoing probabilistic reorganization that renders memory in shifting, unbroken threads that weave unrepeating patterns from an inconceivably finite beginning to an unimaginably distant conclusion.
Contact the artist: ctmoraga@gmail.com
Or see the artist’s website: palimpsesteum.com
Width: 22in
Depth: 8in
Clayton Moraga
The Artist
Art decays or is destroyed: I am compelled to explore how the experience of art can be perpetuated through time.
Ideas are as persistent as a shadow cast by smoke: I am haunted by the mystery of this ephemeral existence and the brief flame of consciousness.
Beauty arises from the most unexpected places: I savor the delight of its discovery when sensitized to being in the big here and the long now.
The Art
The act of creation: The exterior is a coalesced idea applied to a catalytic interior that is itself successive submerged layers of manifested concepts.
The action of being: Just as consciousness is formed through the accretion of awareness, thought, and memory; the work becomes an evolving identity through the shifting narrative of appearance and the ongoing evolution of the interior through imagination and fading memory.
Email: ctmoraga@gmail.com
Website: palimpsesteum.com
Instagram: claytonmoraga