I’m drawn to ordinary moments that come apart under time and close attention. Sometimes these take the form of what I think of as a soft transgression: domestic disorder, a quiet bodily undoing, a dog pissing where it shouldn’t. Other times they become a sealed moment: an absorption so complete it seems suspended, a scene that feels remembered rather than witnessed.
I want to paint the ache of duration: how routine sits beside loss, how we measure, waste, and live through time. There is care in these routines too, a quiet tenderness that sits alongside their fragility. Mortality sits inside even the smallest habits. I think about how we become what we look at and what we remember, how the familiar grows strange, and how intimacy rehearses its own disappearance.
Painting is how I try to stay honest about what I experience. I don’t want irony and I don’t want sweetness. I’m trying to hold tenderness and discomfort together, to see things as they are: fallible, funny, finite.
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I want to paint the ache of duration: how routine sits beside loss, how we measure, waste, and live through time. There is care in these routines too, a quiet tenderness that sits alongside their fragility. Mortality sits inside even the smallest habits. I think about how we become what we look at and what we remember, how the familiar grows strange, and how intimacy rehearses its own disappearance.
Painting is how I try to stay honest about what I experience. I don’t want irony and I don’t want sweetness. I’m trying to hold tenderness and discomfort together, to see things as they are: fallible, funny, finite.
For more information email hello@kanaphilip.com