Kota

Painting along the grain.

Wood grain is a physical record of cosmic rhythm. Time, weather, gravity, seasons, the rotation of the earth — these are the forces that have slowly inscribed themselves into matter. To follow that grain with a brush is to integrate the self into the whole — something far older and larger than the individual. This is both act and expression. I call this practice Cosmic Rhythm. As the medium that carries this record, I work primarily with reclaimed wood collected from the streets.

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