Dreams that connect us
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.
+ Network of dreams 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: February 2024
• Location: Philippe Halaburda studio paintings, Newburgh, NY, USA
About the theme of "network of dreams"
The network model of dreams, a novel neurocognitive theory, posits a connection between dreaming and mind-wandering, suggesting that dreams arise from
the same cognitive processes as spontaneous thoughts during wakefulness.
In my artistic interpretation, I aim to capture the intricacies of this theory through abstract maps on canvas.
Using a combination of color tapes, yarn, and LEGO bricks, I represent each component of this complex process, from the neural networks involved to the representation of waking cognitive abilities.
On the canvas, blue circles symbolize waking cognitive skills, representing
the foundational elements of consciousness and cognition.
These circles are focal points within the abstract landscape, signifying
the starting point from which dreams and mind-wandering emerge.
As the viewer navigates the canvas, they encounter a web of interconnected lines and shapes, reflecting the intricate neural networks underlying waking thought and dream content.
Using color tapes and yarn allows for visualizing the dynamic interplay between different cognitive processes, with each strand representing
a thread of thought or neural connection.
LEGO bricks add depth and texture to the artwork, serving as tangible representations of the neural pathways and structures involved in the network model of dreams.
Through this mixed media approach, I aim to visually represent the intricate relationship between dreaming and mind-wandering, inviting viewers to contemplate the mysteries of consciousness and cognition.
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.
+ 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.
4 abstract paintings on canvas
Emotion Positive & lively, elation
Material Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick, blue plastic circles
Medium Stretched canvas 36 x 36 inches
Date 2024
Authentification Signed and title on the back
+ About the theme of network of dreams
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
