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Original geometric abstract paintings on canvas are available for collectors and exhibitions. This series is part of Adaptive Fragmentation, an ongoing body of work exploring systems, tension, and spatial perception through abstract art.

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Contemporary Abstract Paintings on Canvas: Plus Minus Playground
Abstract Canvas Art Series · 2025

Q: Series Details

6 abstract paintings on canvas Style Contemporary abstract / geometric abstraction Emotion Tension, curiosity, disorientation Material Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick, silicone rubber band, white plastic cross, fabric Medium Stretched canvas 20 x 20 inches Date 2025 Location Newburgh, NY, USA Authentication Signed and titled on the back

Geometric abstract paintings exploring polarity, interaction, and opposing forces.
Mixed media canvas works where plus and minus generate movement, not balance.

Cinnamom Castto

Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick, silicone rubber band, white plastic cross and fabric
on stretched canvas 51 x 51 cm - 20"x 20", USA, 2025

Available

Gather Viigo

Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick, silicone rubber band, white plastic cross and fabric
on stretched canvas 51 x 51 cm - 20"x 20", USA, 2025

Available

Espacc elasticity

Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick, silicone rubber band, white plastic cross and fabric
on stretched canvas 51 x 51 cm - 20"x 20", USA, 2025

Available

Plus Minus Playground is a series of contemporary abstract paintings on canvas
built around the interaction of opposing forces.

Rather than treating plus and minus as fixed opposites, the work explores
how they behave as active elements within a system.

They push, resist, overlap, and reshape each other.

Mon ciel en Huahsuu

Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick, silicone rubber band, white plastic cross and fabric
on stretched canvas 51 x 51 cm - 20"x 20", USA, 2025

Available

Behind the Jiiia

Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick, silicone rubber band, white plastic cross and fabric
on stretched canvas 51 x 51 cm - 20"x 20", USA, 2025

Available

In search of Hayyyon

Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick, silicone rubber band, white plastic cross and fabric
on stretched canvas 51 x 51 cm - 20"x 20", USA, 2025

Available

“Opposition doesn’t cancel, it activates.”

About the Theme of Plus Minus
Playground

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.

Detail — Plus Minus Playground — acrylic, yarn, LEGO brick on canvas Philippe Halaburda, 2025, Newburgh NY

Detail — Plus Minus Playground — color tape, plastic cross, rubber band on canvas Philippe Halaburda, 2025, Newburgh NY

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.

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This series extends my practice of psychogeographical mapping, where internal states are translated into spatial systems. Here, polarity becomes a way to map experience. Plus and minus act as coordinates of tension: attraction vs resistance expansion vs limitation control vs release Each composition reflects how we navigate environments shaped by conflicting impulses rather than clear direction.

These mixed media abstract paintings combine acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO bricks, silicone rubber bands, white plastic crosses, and fabric. Color tape structures space through temporary divisions and directional shifts Yarn introduces tension and directional flow across the surface LEGO bricks, rubber bands, plastic crosses, and fabric act as symbolic found objects, signs embedded in the system Paint is applied, interrupted, and reworked Objects are also embedded on the back of each canvas, distorting the surface and fracturing its expected flatness, pushing the work toward sculptural terrain. The process is iterative, built through accumulation, subtraction, and reconfiguration. Each painting emerges through interaction, not composition alone.