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Painting as a manifestation swerves away from the object itself, mapping itself and materialising itself as a new object. I make paintings through a process of analogy and association, drawing relations towards a new pictorial description of a collection of things, like a mis-remembering of an object of the world, in which something new.

Painting records and archives a vulnerability, autobiographically as well as  a reflection of the constant unknowability of things. this is how I feel about the contemporary experience.

In short, I am not trying to copy the thing, but too attempt a handle on how it, painting, re-presents to me, with all of my flaws, a manifold to thoughts, processes, memories and flaws of memory. It is like working through a collection of memories of things or parts of things, to arrive at a threshold moment of it.

I am interested in the difference between making something, and encountering something, and how these two kinds of expressions correlate and offer new ways of thinking about objects in painting.

Michael Greaves. August 2023