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The Paintings of Hartini Gibson
My work is a fiction set in a moment of time. It is a contemporary fiction composed of fragments of thought, place, sight, myth, emotion, and dream. Unspecific past, specific present, and undetermined future all co-mingle in my work to form a recognizable story and moment that is both as specific and ungraspable as time itself.
I have purposely painted my work in a simple way akin to the glimpse of what one may see at first glance. I have exaggerated color, subject and composition to express the lingering emotion of what one may feel. I have fragmented, abstracted and combined memories, dreams, past and present forms in an attempt to touch the internal impetus of what one may know. I am trying to evoke a feeling of mystery and moment as specific, timeless and elusive as the shape of a cloud, the feel of the wind, the smell of a