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Some of Nicholas Ives’ thinking toward his painting and studio process is to do with the question of possibilities – possibilities within the painting process and as a methodology.
Ives finds that incidents and experiences of painting(vb) articulate multiple possibilities for new lived realities. A painting is the mid-state of an event that operates as an experience with infinite divergence; ie. the instability of the painting process is a fluid reality that moves in the direction of the unlimited. The moment of painting is lived and defies abstraction as it is an experiential travel towards a multitude of moments both past, future and side-by-side. Painting moments always open new painting moments and will disrupt previous painting moments.
Ives likes thinking that these events of destabilisation, transformation and evolution as well as decay, rupturing and loosening reveal new manners, limitless spaces and openings and connections.