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Adam Daley Wilson

We All Like To Look Away Sometimes (I Feel So Much Better Now) is a story of survival. The narrative starts with what seems benign: Across cultures, if we have been troubled, we want to feel better — we want to feel relief; we want equanimity restored. Out of discomfort, we seek peace. The narrative hints at contempt for such notions, given their implications for societies and humanity if personal ease is to be gained by declining to look, or help, or save.

This work visually references both Ruscha and Sugimoto, placing a short text statement over a natural expanse, here a horizon between water and air. The image also references Rothko and color theory, as the darker blue below turns to an area of neutral before coming to a lighter blue.  Empirically, the work draws upon Western academic research regarding universal emotions, the capacity of the human mind for comprehension, empathy, and compassion, Western notions of time, and Eastern notions of impermanence. Finally, this piece has many layers, including a final two layers of hand-painted oil paint, which, if you look closely, set forth shaking marks due to the artist’s unique “lithium brushstroke.”
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We All Like To Look Away Sometimes (I Feel So Much Better Now), 2021
oil text on rephotograph of new media image on canvas
10 x 4.5 ft   3 x 1.4 m
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