El Dorado No.4 by Daniel Stine SWE

Daniel Stine

I am curious about exploring the mechanics of how ideas can be depicted pictorially and the nuances within those forms that elicit emotional response. The emotional response being less about happy or sad, but rather conveying the feelings associated with vastness, isolation, companionship, etc. Ideas that interest me are notions of time, space, and trying to understand my/our place in the contemporary world. Painting has become a necessary aspect of how I interact and perceive the world around me. I do this as an attempt to understand a memory through a detailed recording: to articulate, as well as establish, my perspective. A truer representation of a place, or experience is sought when I start a painting. In this process a meaning is revealed, a memory is clarified, an idea discovered or expanded upon. Although my subject matter is recognizable the aim is not for realism, but a slight abstraction of the real; a representation that hopes to go beyond the surface. They are explorations in a visual symbol that try to uncover perception’s characteristics through abstraction. In each piece I attempt to integrate aspects of the place into the painting through the use of different styles, techniques, textures, etc. In this patchwork I seek to produce something original through the quilting of aspects of its character and my own individual perspective.”