Headless way
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.
+ Intricated pathways inside 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: June 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 "the headless way"
The concept of "going the headless way" emerges through the layered use
of green, a color symbolizing growth, renewal, and balance.
Acrylic paint is the foundation, applied in fluid, organic patterns to evoke a sense of openness and surrender.
Tapes and yarn are integrated to create intricate pathways, weaving connections that dissolve boundaries between the self and the surrounding world.
These materials mirror the transcendence of ego, as the overlapping textures represent unity and interdependence within a more extensive, unfiltered reality.
The shades of green—from soft, muted tones to vibrant, saturated hues
— reflect the journey of moving beyond personal identity into pure awareness.
Softer greens embody a calming stillness, inviting contemplation,
while brighter accents suggest bursts of vitality and enlightenment.
The tactile contrast between smooth paint and textured yarn disrupts visual expectations, urging viewers to engage directly with the work without preconceived notions.
This is similar to the Zen practice of experiencing life
without conceptual filters.
+ 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
Emotion Quiet, positive and calmness
Material Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick, elastics
Medium Stretched canvas 36 x 36 inches
Date 2024
Authentification Signed and title on the back
+ About the theme of the headless way
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
