Artist Statement | Bran Palmer

​Matter flows. My paintings are the residue of me playing a gentle game with liquid light in motion. As Thomas Nail wrote in Theory of the Earth, these "patterns of nature are emergent features of a universe in motion." 

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These works are not meant to decorate. They are meant to ignite. With color and form, I am not looking to send a secret message. I am scorching the surface to shape a pathway. In traveling this way, a game of patterns is revealed.

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Folds, kinetic streams, patterns of motion, turbulence. Paint applied. Paint peeled away. Lines etched and filled. Color pushed with cosmetic sponges, rotary tools, garden sprayers, narrow brushes. Coaxing opacity to play with translucency, hues to vibrate side by side, to circulate and move, to glow and darken, to puddle into shapes on fabric, to soak in and to spread out on surfaces, paint finds its own way.

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I am keenly interested in what happens when humans stop playing gentle games with each other, when we stop caring about discovery, meandering, growing. When we stop making time to play these kinds of games, we become still.

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My work asks for a minute to play, to find a place where we can meet and agree to spend a little time enjoying the journey. This kinetic sport is part of our process of being.

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