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MICHAEL MORIN

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THE BEAUTY IN ENTROPY

I do not see deterioration as the opposite of beauty.
I see transformation within it.

Traveler, mixed-media painting by Michael Morin featuring a fragmented seated figure with a third eye in layered red, black and cream textures

Traveler 36x36 acrylic/mixed media on plywood

I approach painting as an excavation of the human condition. A way of giving physical form to experiences that language can only approximate. There are certain things within us that resist explanation: love, grief, fear, longing, loss, trauma, memory. Words can describe their circumstances, but they rarely communicate their true magnitude. They tell us what happened. They cannot always tell us what it felt like to exist inside it.

Painting offers another kind of language.

Michael Morin · Selected Works

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HAD, abstract mixed-media painting by Michael Morin with fragmented faces, crosses, handwritten text and layered red, black and cream forms

Had 60x72 acrylic/mixed media on canvas

Entity Black, mixed-media painting by Michael Morin depicting a crowned fragmented figure against a dark red and black background

Entity Black 24x36 acrylic/mixed media on canvas

Culvert, black-and-white ink drawing by Michael Morin featuring a heavily crosshatched fragmented human figure

Culvert 18x36 ink on paper

Truth Knox, mixed-media painting by Michael Morin featuring a crowned fragmented figure with geometric forms in red, black and cream

Truth Knocks 48x48 acrylic/mixed media on canvas

Red Entity, mixed-media painting by Michael Morin depicting an abstract figure with raised arms amid vivid red, blue, black and white forms

Red Entity 24x36 acrylic/mixed media on canvas 

Honey Over Static, mixed-media painting by Michael Morin featuring a crowned fragmented face, layered eyes and dense red, black and cream textures

Honey Over Static 36x48 acrylic/mixed media on canvas

Dimensional Strata, mixed-media painting by Michael Morin with fragmented figures, an eye symbol, crown imagery and layered pink, gold, black and blue forms

Dimensional Strata 60x84 acrylic/mixed media on canvas

Pig$, mixed-media painting by Michael Morin featuring a red fragmented figure, pig imagery, handwritten text and layered abstract marks

Pig$ 48x48 acrylic/mixed media on canvas

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