Remote-warfare
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.
+ Interdisciplinary perspectives 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: March 2024
• Location: Philippe Halaburda studio paintings, Newburgh, NY, USA
About the theme of "remote-warfare"
Remote warfare, fueled by drones and cyber warfare, epitomizes modern conflict, distancing combatants while raising profound ethical dilemmas.
Its remote nature challenges traditional notions of warfare, sparking
a surprising fascination amid my anti-military sentiments.
Through abstract maps on canvas, I employ a unique blend of color tapes, yarn, and LEGO bricks to symbolize each component of this evolving process.
The canvas serves as a metaphorical battlefield where traditional notions
of warfare are blurred by the emergence of remote engagement tactics.
I depict the spatial dynamics of remote warfare with color tapes representing geographical terrain and strategic locations.
Yarn intertwines across the canvas, symbolizing the interconnected networks
of communication and surveillance integral to modern military operations.
Each LEGO brick represents the technological advancements driving remote warfare, from drones and satellites to cyber warfare capabilities.
Through this mixed media approach, I aim to convey the multifaceted nature
of remote warfare, where traditional battle lines are replaced by invisible boundaries dictated by technological reach.
The artwork's abstract nature invites viewers to contemplate the ethical implications of remote engagement and the human cost of conflicts fought
from afar.
My art reflects on the ever-evolving nature of warfare in the digital age
and the need for critical dialogue surrounding its ethical dimensions.
Details of the series
SERIES OF 6 ABSTRACT PAINTINGS
Material Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick
Medium Stretched canvas 36 x 36 inches
Date 2024
Authentification Signed and title on the back
+ About the theme of remote-warfare
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.
7 abstract paintings on canvas
Emotion Negative and forceful, irritation
Material Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick
Medium Stretched canvas 36 x 36 inches
Date 2024
Authentification Signed and title on the back
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.
