I’m drawn to the quiet parts of life: the gestures, the pauses, the routines. They feel burnished by the knowledge that time will take it all. In them, I find a tenderness that comes from knowing nothing lasts.
My work mourns— is an act of mourning— not the event of death, but the daily and gentle erosion of presence.
My work mourns— is an act of mourning— not the event of death, but the daily and gentle erosion of presence.
My work centers on the human experience of impermanence, not as a distant concept, but as something intimate and felt: the flutter of ephemerality, the quiet instability beneath what seems continuous, the tenderness and terror of knowing things won't last.
I am drawn to refuges of authentic connection: moments of unguarded presence in solitary absorption, in domestic rituals, in the spaces between intended actions. Dogs, daily patterns, the quiet choreography of ordinary life become vessels of time, measurements of our passage through days and years.
Certain motifs emerge from this exploration: a pattern that migrates between compositions, figures whose gestures echo across separate canvases, domestic rhythms that repeat with subtle variations. These elements function like visual memory, creating continuities that acknowledge both persistence and change. Rather than explaining impermanence, the work seeks to create suspended moments where viewers sense the same paradox: how gestures repeated become poignant, how ordinary rituals turn profound, how fleeting moments feel most tender. In these pauses between the intended and the observed, presence and loss exist simultaneously.
For more information email hello@kanaphilip.com
I am drawn to refuges of authentic connection: moments of unguarded presence in solitary absorption, in domestic rituals, in the spaces between intended actions. Dogs, daily patterns, the quiet choreography of ordinary life become vessels of time, measurements of our passage through days and years.
Certain motifs emerge from this exploration: a pattern that migrates between compositions, figures whose gestures echo across separate canvases, domestic rhythms that repeat with subtle variations. These elements function like visual memory, creating continuities that acknowledge both persistence and change. Rather than explaining impermanence, the work seeks to create suspended moments where viewers sense the same paradox: how gestures repeated become poignant, how ordinary rituals turn profound, how fleeting moments feel most tender. In these pauses between the intended and the observed, presence and loss exist simultaneously.
For more information email hello@kanaphilip.com