Repository for an Artifact of Catharsis
The ebonized enclosure is crafted in the style of a Japanese tansu. Blued steel hardware accentuates the rich tones of the oiled walnut door. The locked access panel is inset with a patinated copper plate pierced with hexagrams of the i-Ching; revealed, in this instance, to the artist during the final stages of the conception of the work. The interior component provides a charged contrast to the somber casing with its natural alder framework and ink rendered silhouette of crows and pine tree over a white background.
Contact the artist: ctmoraga@gmail.com
Or see the artist’s website: palimpsesteum.com
Width: 22in
Depth: 22in
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