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—unguarded moments of solitary absorption, quiet gestures of devotion, and the fleeting slip of attention where something unguarded comes through. These scenes act as vessels of time, preserving something that might otherwise dissolve unnoticed.
Certain motifs return often: domestic patterns repeated with slight variations, a form half-obscured or echoed, or a figure that seems to mirror the position of an object from another painting. These elements operate like memory—part pattern, part rearrangement—marking time through formal return.
Rather than seeking answers, the work creates a space where presence and impermanence can be felt at once. Many of the moments I paint are quiet, but irreversible—something has crossed a line that can’t be undone. I think of these as soft transgressions or porous thresholds, where presence becomes permanence, not because it endures, but because it changes something.
For more information email hello@kanaphilip.com
I am drawn to refuges of authentic connection—unguarded moments of solitary absorption, quiet gestures of devotion, and the fleeting slip of attention where something unguarded comes through. These scenes act as vessels of time, preserving something that might otherwise dissolve unnoticed.
Certain motifs return often: domestic patterns repeated with slight variations, a form half-obscured or echoed, or a figure that seems to mirror the position of an object from another painting. These elements operate like memory—part pattern, part rearrangement—marking time through formal return.
Rather than seeking answers, the work creates a space where presence and impermanence can be felt at once. Many of the moments I paint are quiet, but irreversible—something has crossed a line that can’t be undone. I think of these as soft transgressions or porous thresholds, where presence becomes permanence, not because it endures, but because it changes something.
For more information email hello@kanaphilip.com