Capstone
Abstract canvas art series
2024
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Contemporary Abstract Paintings:
Lingering Traces, Mapping What Remains
Abstract Canvas Art Series · 2025
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Abstract paintings exploring memory, residual marks, and emotional traces
across layered surfaces.
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Mixed media canvas works in which gestures accumulate, fade, and reappear over time.
+ Creative teaching in psychogeographical mapping
in contemporary abstract art
• Painted emotions: quiet tension, control, and emotional containment, self-monitoring, isolation within structure
• Series: 6 original paintings on canvas
• Date: March 2024
• Location: Philippe Halaburda studio paintings, Newburgh, NY, USA
About the theme of "Capstone experience"
As I delve into the capstone experience, I translate its integrative nature onto canvas through psychogeography-influenced abstract maps.
Using a palette dominated by black shapes contrasted with vibrant orange
and warm colors, I symbolize the culmination of knowledge and skills gained throughout the educational journey.
Each color tape and yarn strand represents a component of the capstone process, weaving together the diverse learning elements into a cohesive narrative.
The black shapes on the canvas serve as anchor points, representing
the foundational knowledge acquired during the educational program.
As the project progresses, vibrant orange hues emerge, symbolizing the synthesis and integration of various disciplines and perspectives.
The warm colors that permeate the canvas evoke a sense of passion and enthusiasm, reflecting the dedication and commitment required to complete the capstone project.
Through this abstract representation, I aim to capture the transformative journey of the capstone experience, from initial exploration to final synthesis.
The interplay of colors and shapes mirrors the dynamic nature of learning, where diverse ideas and perspectives converge to create a holistic understanding of complex concepts.
These paintings serve as a visual testament to the transformative power of education and the profound impact of the capstone experience on personal and intellectual growth.
+ Materials & process
Materials operate as active elements within the composition.
Color tape establishes boundaries and directional shifts, yarn traces fragile connections across the surface, and wood blocks introduce weight, interruption, and architectural resistance.
Together, these materials disrupt the painted field, allowing the canvas to behave like a lived environment, layered, negotiated, and in constant motion.
3 abstract paintings on canvas
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Material Acrylic, color tape, yarn, thread
Medium Stretched canvas 48 x 48 inches
Date 2024
Authentification Signed and title on the back
About the Theme of Triadic Tension
This series of contemporary abstract paintings draws on the Triskele, an ancient symbol of three interlocking spirals that represent motion, cycles, and interconnected forces.
Rather than depicting the spiral literally, I translate it into geometric abstract painting through triangular structures.
These forms act as a framework for exploring triadic systems: body, mind, and environment; past, present,
and future; chaos, order, and adaptation.
But the structure is never stable.
Each abstract canvas composition is intentionally displaced, fragmented, and destabilized, interrupted by tangled yarn, ruptured tape, and collisions of color.
The work resists equilibrium.
These modern abstract paintings operate in a state of imbalance, where structure is continuously negotiated rather than resolved.
Transformation appears not as a smooth cycle,
but as a disrupted loop, where repetition carries friction,
deviation, and instability.
+ About the theme of capstone
experience
Plus Minus Playground is a series where I channel emotional contradictions, tension, anticipation, and playfulness through a language of abstract geometry, thread, and symbolic marks.
My process begins with mapping intuitive gestures onto a raw canvas: taped lines, yarn grids, LEGO bricks, and found plastic parts are arranged like fragments of a scrambled code or echoes of urban circuitry.
Each "+" and "–" becomes a sign of presence and absence, a negotiation between control and disorder.
I intentionally build onto the back of each canvas, embedding small objects that distort the surface and fracture its expected flatness.
This subtle intervention adds dimensionality, pushing the work towardsculptural terrain, inviting the viewer to question what lies beneath,not just what is seen
