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| Untitled Still life #11, 2012 by Roger Chavez |
In the past three years, I have returned to painting the still-life.
For me, the subject matter serves as a point of departure, allowing me to find my own forms through exploring the subject. The immediate accessibility of the still-life facilitates my focus on the objects themselves, their shadows, shapes, and the space they occupy.
In my process, I focus on the same object(s) over an extended period of time. In working on one subject over this stretch of time, the physical arrangement of the subject is not based upon a scheme for a potential source of new visual information, but to confront the subject matter as a whole. Thus, the placement of the objects rarely changes, and this provides an environment to discover something new within the same objects and the space around them. Each attempt to paint my subject matter becomes new and different.
For me, the subject matter serves as a point of departure, allowing me to find my own forms through exploring the subject. The immediate accessibility of the still-life facilitates my focus on the objects themselves, their shadows, shapes, and the space they occupy.
In my process, I focus on the same object(s) over an extended period of time. In working on one subject over this stretch of time, the physical arrangement of the subject is not based upon a scheme for a potential source of new visual information, but to confront the subject matter as a whole. Thus, the placement of the objects rarely changes, and this provides an environment to discover something new within the same objects and the space around them. Each attempt to paint my subject matter becomes new and different.
