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John Sousa

Midwest
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A Penny for Your Thoughts

Abstract collage with colorful dots, text snippets, and layered white textures.

mixed media painting with dimensional and UV cured printing

Pogo

Abstract collage with colorful dots, mixed text snippets, and a blurred photo of rubber ducks.

mixed media paintings with dimensional and UV cured printing

Tea Time

Colorful collage with letters, a coffee cup, rubber ducks, paint, and abstract shapes on white.

mixed media painting with dimensional and UV cured printing

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Artist Statement

 I think of each work in my Chaos Fields series as part of an imagined plane of infinite possibility, where anything can emerge out of the field/void. This is a play on both the formal field of painting and the frothy, quantum one of physics. At the quantum level, it seems reality’s emergence requires observation; with art, the viewer is also essential.

These works do not dictate; their meaning is unfixed. Instead, they suggest. What you experience is filtered through your personal perception. The notion that ‘any possibility’ can appear out of the field/void gives me the freedom to include in them whatever I wish. This has led me to be more playful than usual. I like to say these works are like Robert Ryman paintings gone bad.

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