I shut my eyes in order to see.

“For the past few years I’ve been working with this idea of dissolving notions of self through painting. Many paintings begin with the idea of a figure or space undergoing a sort of metamorphosis. As the figure goes from being recognizable—or representational, into something irrational—or abstract, notions of self are deconstructed, and ideas about one’s identity become much more open-ended. I’m especially interested in how abstraction can be used to transform concrete ideas of place and self into open-ended forms that lend insight to the primal side of human nature.” – Kristine Moran