ARCHIVE UNDER FIRE

ARCHIVE UNDER FIRE is built through accumulation, abrasion, and sustained mental pressure. The surface is crowded with marks, symbols, fragments of language, and repeated gestures that stack and interfere with one another. Meaning does not organize itself. It competes.

Color moves aggressively across the field, colliding with drawn figures, text, and diagrammatic forms. Eyes, symbols, and directional marks surface and dissolve, suggesting awareness under strain. Nothing settles into hierarchy. The image reads like a system recording too much at once.

The work reflects memory and cognition under continuous exposure. Information is not processed and released, but archived while still burning. What remains is residue rather than clarity, evidence rather than conclusion. The painting holds attention, pressure, and interruption simultaneously.

Process remains fully visible. Corrections are not concealed. The surface preserves its own excess as part of its structure, allowing intelligence, anxiety, and persistence to coexist without resolution.

Details

• Original one of one artwork

• Mixed media on canvas

• Size: 48 x 36 inches

• Year: 2025

• Signed by the artist

• Ships ready to hang

• Created in Santa Barbara, California