Platinum Sea(Marconi No.1), Edie Nadelhaft
Paintings from the Platinum Sea: a new series of highly detailed paintings of fragments of the surface of the North Atlantic ocean. The water is described in a muted palette made up exclusively of red, white and indigo. I try to keep the color fairly neutral, bringing about subtle changes in "temperature" and tone through minute adjustments to the proportions of these 3 components. Color is not an innate quality to water, and my omission of it in these paintings is also intended to keep nostalgic associations at bay. I adopt a perspective that is extreme, often bringing the composition to the brink of abstraction. Situational cues such as a horizon line or light source are intentionally cropped out. What remains is an unbounded section of sensual topography, the actual scale and orientation of which is unknowable and unimportant.
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