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eMil bakalli

lives and works in briarwood, New york, USA

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The aim of my work is to penetrate into the very condition that I am my lines; its vitality emerges in my paintings so as to render the invisible
trapped in, into the very rift and situation that I am situated in my milieu rhythms visible. but even more so, my eye “captures” and “isolates” the
or in the mode of how I experience and perceive the Things that make up ubiquitous temper of crowds’ steps amidst the paths of New york City,
my environment. I “abstract and distill my experience” as being a part of through which my work evolves and where my thoughts and experiences
a condition, of a lively plexus, and of spontaneities or occurrences in the find a dynamic familiarity of form and line: this is the ground of my
reality-of-being-there. I am a part of this reality and yet, I am not fully it; painting’s surface. In other words, my artistic rupture takes place in a
i.e., I am still I as long as I am the wondering and gazing eye. locality that is enveloped in the presence of a condition. It is the very core
The inspirational sources of my visual information are people and of this condition-experience-involvement that my art has evolved and
continuously changing sequences-instances immerging and dissolving engaged itself as a form and also, let me say; my art is the manifestation
from the public surroundings of a city life like New york (like my daily of this milieu of technological shattering speed; of vibrancy and force,
subway- ride with its colorful wave of overlapping and altering images), of sensation, of simultaneously emerging and dissolving realities that
where instantaneous forms dissipate; thus, leaving behind tensions pass-by me and yet are connatural or build-in-me.
and the mere traces of events as they happen. The crowd is a walking Another way to put it is that, my painterly and performative act of self-
silhouette and yet, it becomes the flesh of my colors and the contour of affirmation springs from a sober condition of an ecstatic joy of my visual
 DiVerGenCe-sHatter # 1, 2009 OIl ON lINEN 36x34 IN. /91x86 CM.  DiVerGenCe-sHatter # 4, 2009 OIl ON lINEN 36x34 IN. /91x86 CM.

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