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Contemporary Abstract Paintings on Canvas: Fractured Stabilization 
Abstract Canvas Art Series · 2025

  • Abstract paintings on canvas exploring fractured stabilization,
    the tension between holding together and breaking apart.

     

  • Mixed-media works in which structure simulates control,
    but the system is always under strain.

Abstract painting on canvas — Grounded in Hṛṣīkaśśa — acrylic, yarn, LEGO brick, 
wood block, 30x30 in, Philippe Halaburda, 2025, Newburgh NY

Grounded in Hrsīkaśśa

Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick, wood block on stretched canvas 76 x 76 cm - 30"x 30", USA, 2025

Available

Fractured Stabilization is a series of contemporary abstract paintings on canvas
that explores the illusion of control in systems under constant pressure.

Rather than depicting collapse, the work captures the moment just before it, 
where everything appears functional but is internally strained.

 

They hold. They resist. They almost break.

Abstract painting on canvas — Grounded in Liishikeśhh — acrylic, yarn, LEGO brick, 
wood block, 30x30 in, Philippe Halaburda, 2025, Newburgh NY

Grounded in Liishikeśhh

Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick, wood block on stretched canvas 76 x 76 cm - 30"x 30", USA, 2025

Available

Abstract painting on canvas — Grounded in Tessaan Riśhhkuu — acrylic, yarn, LEGO brick, 
wood block, 30x30 in, Philippe Halaburda, 2025, Newburgh NY

Grounded in Tessaan Riśhhkuu

Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick, wood block on stretched canvas 76 x 76 cm - 30"x 30", USA, 2025

Available

“What looks like order is often a strain.
What feels like support may also be a trap.”

About the Theme of Fractured
Stabilization

Fractured Stabilization is a series in which I channel the emotional states of high-functioning anxiety, quiet tension, self-monitoring, and the exhausting labor of holding fragile systems together, through abstract geometry, thread, and structural marks.

My process begins with anchoring: a rigid LEGO column at the center of each canvas, a false axis around which yarn, tape, and painted fragments spiral outward.

MORE ABOUT FRACTURED STABILIZATION​​

Details of abstract painting on canvas — Grounded in Tessaan Riśhhkuu
detail of abstract painting on canvas Grounded in Liishikeśhh

These elements stretch like signals or survival instincts, but they don't resolve.

 

They pull. They fracture. They resist coherence.

 

Each canvas becomes a psychogeographical map,
where everything appears connected,
but nothing is at rest.

MORE ABOUT STRUCTURAL INSTABILITY IN SYSTEMS

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