Kim Davison - Second Artist Statement
July 29th, 2008There is something beautiful about the naked body. Its non-verbal, though audible and visible, diverse narrative manifests beyond words, on rich visual, sensory and dynamic planes. Your body, my body exist in an ever-changing continuum. Our body can be assimilated in the present as a static snap-shot momentary event, and thoroughly comprehended retrospectively through its lines, contours, marks, postures, features, damage - its history, its memories, its experiences enfolded and encoded in the macroscopic molecular sculpture that we call the human form.
The body‘s psychic relations, which are effected on the mental and emotional planes but imprinted on the physical, leave permanent residues of the other voice as an interior whisper inscribed in a language that is unique for each individual. Its raw silence echoes an harmonic and archaic primal music, a personal music of the spheres. The culmination of shifting and intermingling notions of beauty, strangeness, pleasure and strength, often gendered, is a seductive subject for me to investigate and express. My painting is a sensory and intuitive response to the dynamics of contour, form, and texture.
Nothing is ever fixed. So teaches Zen. My own relationship and response to this natural evolving diversity continually changes also, my translation shifting focus as impressions mix and merge and color each other. In interpreting those sensations, in opening my eyes, the inherent overwhelming complexity is in effect slowed down to allow my subject to be captured in its totality. Layers of surface become an investigation into the history of that subject, eventually evolving as a recorded paradoxical mass of striking reality. I paint what evokes my internal response. Each response is unique, embedded, fragile and strong, true to my subject.
