Free nerve ending
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.
+ Stimulus modalities 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 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 "free nerve ending"
In my artistic exploration of free nerve endings, I delve into the intricate network of sensory fibers within the skin, capturing their ethereal essence through abstract expressionism.
Through my work, I seek to unravel the enigmatic language of tactile sensation, translating the subtle nuances of touch into a visual tapestry that transcends conventional representation.
Using canvas as my medium, I embark on a journey reminiscent of psychogeographical mapping, navigating the terrain of sensory perception
with a palette of vibrant purple hues.
With each stroke of color tape and yarn, I weave together a tapestry of sensory experiences, mirroring the branching terminations of sensory fibers as
they intertwine and diverge beneath the skin's surface.
I aim to evoke a visceral response through abstraction, inviting viewers
to immerse themselves in the tactile landscape I create.
Through my abstract representations, I aim to provoke contemplation on the interconnectedness of the human experience, illuminating the invisible threads that bind us to the world around us.
By harnessing the power of color and texture, I invite viewers to embark on a sensory journey, tracing the pathways of free nerve endings as they navigate the rich tapestry of sensation that defines our perception of the world.
+ 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, LEGO brick
Medium Stretched canvas 48 x 48 inches
Date 2024
Authentification Signed and title on the back
+ About the theme of free nerve
ending
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
