Playful nostalgia
Abstract canvas art series
2025
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+ Playful nostlagia in psychogeographical mapping
in contemporary abstract art
• Painted emotions: nostalgia, curiosity, and disorientation
• Series: 2 original paintings on canvas
• Date: May 2025
• Location: Philippe Halaburda studio paintings, Newburgh, NY, USA
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Acrylic, color tape, yarn, thread, and wood block on stretched canvas 76 x 76 cm - 30"x 30", USA, 2025.
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Acrylic, color tape, yarn, thread, and wood block on stretched canvas 76 x 76 cm - 30"x 30", USA, 2025.
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+ About the theme of drawing memory
The works in Cognitive Gridlocks investigate states of interruption and constraint, moments when thinking becomes cyclical, dense, or obstructed.
Geometric frameworks collide with gestural marks, suggesting systems under stress.
These compositions reflect broader psychological
and societal patterns in which acceleration and overload create friction rather than flow.
Each painting is developed through an iterative
mixed-media process involving layered paint, collage,
and mark-making.
Forms are built, disrupted, and rebuilt over time, mirroring cycles of accumulation and release.
The surfaces retain evidence of revision, keeping the process itself visible and integral to the final work.
The Cognitive Gridlocks series was developed in the studio as part of an ongoing investigation into emotional mapping and geographic abstraction.
The works are intended for exhibition, acquisition,
and institutional dialogue within contemporary abstract art contexts.
About the theme of "drawing memory"
In my Shapes Memory Game series, I engage abstraction as a playful yet poignant exploration of fragmented recollection and emotional coding.
The process begins with layering, geometric forms, colored threads,
found objects like buttons or Lego pieces, each an emblem of stored
or distorted memory.
The seemingly chaotic composition mimics the disorder of remembering: moments pop in with sharp clarity or blur into noise.
Bright colors evoke youthful exuberance and curiosity, while intersecting black lines introduce tension and structure, suggesting the subconscious effort
to make sense of scattered data.
There’s a sensory overload to the work, yet every piece of color or form
has intent, creating a cognitive map that mirrors the act of mental sorting.
The emotions here range from joy to confusion to nostalgia,
urging the viewer to trace their internal circuitry of memory and meaning.
This series is not about fixed answers, but about the constant mental
ping-pong between remembering, forgetting, and reinterpreting.
+ 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.
2 abstract paintings on canvas
Emotion Nostalgia, curiosity, and disorientation
Material Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick, wood block
Medium Stretched canvas 60 x 60 inches
Date 2025
Authentification Signed and title on the back