Model collapse
Abstract canvas art series
2025
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+ Cartography of vestige in psychogeographical mapping
in contemporary abstract art
• Painted emotions: tension, curiosity, disorientation
• Series: 6 original paintings on canvas
• Date: May 2025
• Location: Philippe Halaburda studio paintings, Newburgh, NY, USA
Unmapping the Taancriid
Acrylic, color tape, yarn, wood block on stretched canvas 101 x 101 cm - 40"x 40", USA, 2025
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No signal in Haaam
Acrylic, color tape, yarn, wood block on stretched canvas 101 x 101 cm - 40"x 40", USA, 2025
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Tammenagg cluster
Acrylic, color tape, yarn, wood block on stretched canvas 101 x 101 cm - 40"x 40", USA, 2025
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Dabbiucaoo
Acrylic, color tape, yarn, wood block on stretched canvas 101 x 101 cm - 40"x 40", USA, 2025
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An Arppphea sector
Acrylic, color tape, yarn, wood block on stretched canvas 101 x 101 cm - 40"x 40", USA, 2025
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Fryynss roots
Acrylic, color tape, yarn, wood block on stretched canvas 101 x 101 cm - 40"x 40", USA, 2025
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About the theme of "model collapse"
This series maps something unseen, not cities or landscapes, but my internal terrain at a moment of rupture.
While making these paintings, I was navigating a state of emotional overload and psychological disorientation.
What emerged were fragile systems, painted, stitched, and tensioned, that reflect the quiet panic of trying to stay intact.
Each composition became a kind of topography of collapse. I used layered materials, taut thread, and rigid geometry to express the illusion of structure, how order can mask instability.
Red dominates the central axis, a visual scream. It represents alarm, burnout, and systems under pressure, both personal and societal.
These shapes aren’t just aesthetic; they’re broken signals, failed attempts at communication, or warning lights flashing in the background of daily life.
The yellow and acid green zones offered something more complicated: they felt like desperate repairs, like patching emotional circuitry with whatever was left.
To me, these colors became stand-ins for false stability, interventions that try to hold the system together but only deepen the disconnect.
Creating this work was cathartic, but not comforting. I wasn’t building a solution. I was documenting the collapse, mapping what happens when you’ve used every backup system and nothing holds.
It’s about the emotional labor of appearing stable while everything inside is shifting.
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+ About the theme of model collapse
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.
6 abstract paintings on canvas
Emotion Anxiety, fragmented control, urgency
Material Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick, wood block
Medium Stretched canvas 40 x 40 inches
Date 2025
Authentification Signed and title on the back