Fractured stabilization
Abstract canvas art series
2025
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+ Spatial disruption 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: June 2025
• Location: Philippe Halaburda studio paintings, Newburgh, NY, USA
Grounded in Hṛṣīkaśśa
Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick, wood block on stretched canvas 76 x 76 cm - 30"x 30", USA, 2025
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Grounded in Liishikeśhh
Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick, wood block on stretched canvas 76 x 76 cm - 30"x 30", USA, 2025
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Grounded in Tessaan Riśhhkuu
Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick, wood block on stretched canvas 76 x 76 cm - 30"x 30", USA, 2025
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About the theme of "fractured stabilization"
The illusion of connection in a system that’s constantly shifting.
In this series, I explore the emotional tension between control and collapse, between the desire to ground myself and the reality of systems in constant flux.
These works evoke quiet tension, control, and emotional containment.
They suggest a psychological state of high-functioning anxiety, where everything appears connected but remains internally strained.
There’s a deep sense of self-monitoring, isolation within structure, and the quiet labor of holding it all together.
Each painting centers around a rigid LEGO column, a false anchor in a network of thread, geometric forms, and fragmented patterns.
These lines and shapes stretch outward like signals or survival instincts,
but they don’t resolve. They pull. They fracture. They resist coherence.
As an artist, I use physical materials, such as string, LEGO bricks, wood blocks, and acrylic, to echo emotional infrastructures.
What looks like order is often a strain.
What feels like support may also be a trap: the networked structures in these works reflect the emotional labor of holding it all together, not just for myself, but for the systems I inhabit.
I’m interested in how we simulate stability: how we build fragile architectures of meaning, connection, or identity in the face of instability.
These pieces ask whether connection is even possible without distortion, and whether the structures we trust, digital, personal, and societal, are designed
to support us, or to keep us in place.
This is not a series about collapse. It’s about what happens just before.
+ About the theme of fractured
stabilization
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
+ 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 tension, control, and emotional containment, self-monitoring, isolation within structure
Material Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick, wood block
Medium Stretched canvas 30 x 30 inches
Date 2025
Authentification Signed and title on the back