Cover Your Eyes, But Never Hide by Scott Hutchison

Title:	Cover Your Eyes, But Never Hide
Date Created:	2019
Copyright:	© Scott Allen Hutchison
Genre:	Unpublished Art
Mediums:	Oils
Views:	412
Posted:	11/29/2019

Projects: My paintings and drawings are conceived by combining the use of photography, animation techniques, projections, and digital manipulation to create multifaceted figures that appear to move and animate. One painting may consist of four or five different time frames. Overlapping echoes, a figure may merge into another or become a haunting monstrous abstraction. My compositions are piece together digitally influenced heavily by my experience creating oil painted animations. In animation, the viewer sees a moving image created by separate time frames shown in quick succession. However, in this body of work the viewer is presented with multiple time frames at once. The result is a body of work that embraces realism, surrealism and abstraction. Each piece is intentionally shrouded in mystery, letting the viewer interpret its various meanings. However, I am fascinated by time, the idea of self, and the way in which I can evoke an urgency of being freed from the confines of self. Life is a series of ever changing events and time in its infinite step changes us. In an age of selfies, one portrait, or one moment in time does not capture the essence of who we are. We are many things.

Location: Washington DC

22" x 27" Oil on Aluminum The outer edge of the picture plane is as important as what is inside. His arms repeat the rectangular border of the composition and he is covering his eyes from a light or an unknown force beyond its four walls. As with most of my work in this series, the figure is created by combining multiple disjointed bodies. In this case, all the figures are of him. However. the three main moments I drew from represent different competing moments in time. The work is meant to evoke the idea that we are a product of our own experiences and our actions. We are not a definable or singular moment in time. My use of saturated color, bright light and translucently painted forms represent that fleeting effect of passing time and memory. The viewer's is encouraged to bring meaning to the work and interpret what is happening based on his/her own life experience.