Crosscurrents
Abstract canvas art series
2025
Crosscurrents is a 2025 abstract canvas art series exploring emotional movement and psychogeographical tension through layered composition.
Using acrylic and mixed media, the works translate inner states into dynamic visual systems shaped by memory, rhythm, and spatial flow.
The series reflects an ongoing investigation into how emotion circulates through environments, positioning abstraction as a form of mapping rather than representation.
+ Emotion, movement, and psychogeographical mapping
in contemporary abstract art
• Painted emotions: tension, anxiety, restlessness
• Series: 6 original paintings on canvas
• Date: September 2025
• Location: Philippe Halaburda studio, Newburgh, NY, USA
Violet Frooesse
Acrylic, color tape, yarn, thread, and wood block on stretched canvas 76 x 76 cm - 30"x 30", USA, 2025.
Available
Just Giidggenn
Acrylic, color tape, yarn, thread, and wood block on stretched canvas 76 x 76 cm - 30"x 30", USA, 2025.
Available
I wanted to paint more than shapes and color; I wanted to give form
to the invisible tensions and harmonies that shape how we move through the world.
These paintings were born out of a period when I felt pulled between forces:
the push of expectation, the pull of intuition, and the subtle undercurrents of memory
and desire that ripple through creative life.
Hiior Reiina olbliques
Acrylic, color tape, yarn, thread, and wood block on stretched canvas 76 x 76 cm - 30"x 30", USA, 2025.
Available
You have been a Sveaendsaean
Acrylic, color tape, yarn, thread, and wood block on stretched canvas 76 x 76 cm - 30"x 30", USA, 2025.
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My focus was emotional first, to translate those inner movements into a visual language
that feels both immediate and infinitely open.
The composition became a conversation between stillness and motion, restraint and release.
Each sweep of acrylic and each layered gesture was a response to a feeling of being in motion,
even when standing still.
Violet Frooesse
Acrylic, color tape, yarn, thread, and wood block on stretched canvas 76 x 76 cm - 30"x 30", USA, 2025.
Available
Lauuerr gamma
Acrylic, color tape, yarn, thread, and wood block on stretched canvas 76 x 76 cm - 30"x 30", USA, 2025.
Available
This series isn’t just about tension; it’s about transformation, the way seemingly opposed forces can collide, overlap, and ultimately shape a new continuity.
If you look closely, you can trace the echoes of friction that become pathways forward, reminding us that the currents we navigate inside ourselves are as vital and dynamic
as those we encounter outside.
“This series maps the invisible dynamics of thought and place,
inviting a navigation through emotional and spatial flow.”
+ About the theme of Crosscurrents
The Crosscurrents series examines moments of emotional pull and counterforce states where intuition and structure coexist in tension.
Color, geometry, and gesture collide to suggest shifting environments shaped by memory, experience, and spatial awareness.
Rather than representing place, the paintings translate how place is felt and navigated internally.
Planes of color interrupt each other, threads pull taut across the surface, and fractured shapes suggest structures on the verge of collapse or transformation.
Each element carries its own direction, its own current,
but together they form a charged equilibrium, a visual metaphor for the way we navigate contradiction,
conflict, and change.
The works evoke a particular anxiety through the tension
in how lines are pulled tight, holding disparate fragments
in place, and through the restlessness of overlapping flows that resist stillness, always pushing forward.
Resilience, in the balance that emerges despite disruption, is proof that harmony can be rebuilt even within fractured spaces.
Crosscurrents is both personal and collective: a meditation on how emotions and external forces shape the maps of our lives, constantly colliding yet somehow holding together.
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+ 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.
6 abstract paintings on canvas
Emotion Tension, anxiety, restlessness
Material Acrylic, color tape, yarn, thread, LEGO brick, wood block
Medium Stretched canvas 30 x 30 inches
Date 2025
Authentification Signed and title on the back
+ Series context
From studio to exhibition
Developed in the studio as part of an ongoing investigation into geographic abstraction, Crosscurrents continues a broader exploration of emotional mapping and spatial perception.
The works are available for exhibition, acquisition, and curatorial collaboration.