Brian Burris: Process Abstract--Abstract Art

Brian Burris: archetypal abstracts

I've been painting twenty-three
years
of death and loss and
abandonment.
I do abstracts: archetypal 'aleatory'
invocations.

Process layering: process abstract.
Paint, distressed, abraded and
caustic: metaphor, of
psychological dissolution, the
summum of id, ego and superego,
An archetypal landscape of above
and so below, and the horizon that
is our awareness;
this dissolute world: darkness,
light, and the portals between.
A codex, in three acts..

Division:
extreme and mean ratio:
allegorical proportion— deviations,
characterized by declinations on
the peripheral, the edges of
awareness disintegrating;
stark, deteriorated fields in
contrast
metaphor for the summum of the
human psyche
(wherein lies the ego? Brief
twilight between?)
..depicted in extreme and golden
mean, primordial semiotics:
A corruption of all things in
balance, ratio suffering slight
asymmetry and declination,
destruction
of the partitioning of hierarchies
of self.

Dominion—sphere, arc waxing
the repression of traumatic
memory (the traumatic initiatory
crisis, to die and have one’s vision
of reality transformed, to pass into
the interrelatedness of all things to
become nameless with no room for
want)
schism and segregation of the
emotive aspect becoming a
presence in and of itself.. the
sleeper which moves in twilight,
monster, demon..
however walled-off it may be,
still looming.
Dominion promises immortality.

Striae: vertical striations
sign and sigil—of control.. of force
terrible and glorious as Rome and
sordid as rutting Mother Babylon,
force in tension, intolerance
equilibrium, between desolation,
atonement..

Baudelaire wrote: Nature is a
temple in which living columns
sometimes emit confused words.
Man approaches it through a forest
of symbols, which observe him
with familiar glances.

I paint the forest.