Drifting canvas art
Constructed tension
Philippe Halaburda — 2023 — New York
In 2023, the studio practice focused on mapping emotional complexity, translating subconscious states, perceptual shifts, and internal landscapes into structured abstract systems.
Eight canvas series explore distinct psychological territories: memory, ethics, tone, tension, corrosion, and collapse.
Each series builds a visual language from acrylic, tape, and yarn, organizing, fragmenting, and reorganizing it again.
All works are mixed media on square canvas. Available to collectors, galleries, and institutions.
Artistic process
and emotional structure
The process is driven by an attempt to understand and map emotional complexity.
Color codes and graphic signs, created with tape or yarn, form a visual language that organizes fragmented thoughts into cohesive compositions. These elements guide the viewer through layered emotional landscapes that do not exist physically, yet feel familiar.
The work moves between conscious structure and subconscious impulse, creating spaces where perception, memory, and emotion converge. Each piece becomes a journey, an invitation to navigate an internal terrain shaped as much by the viewer as by the work itself.
The 2023 body of work marks a deepening of the psychogeographical mapping practice, moving from urban spatial systems toward more internal, biological, and ethical territories. Color tape and yarn continue to function as the primary mark-making language: precise, directional, and combinatorial. Each series introduces a new set of emotional coordinates while remaining part of a coherent visual system.
Together, the eight series form a year-long investigation into the emotional architecture of lived experience.
Artist statement
in 2023
Eight series. Eight territories. Each one a different way of asking the same question — how do the systems we build to organize experience end up shaping, limiting, or distorting it? Memory corrodes.
Ethics complicate the act of looking. Color operates as structure, not feeling. The grid declines. Cells age and shorten.
The 2023 body of work moves the mapping practice inward and outward simultaneously, toward the biological, the ethical, the elemental.
These are the emotional coordinates of a year. The paintings are the map.