Kaitlin Z. McDonough
Boston University
Hoping to accomplish visually the nuances that magical realist writers express linguistically, these paintings create worlds that are not of this world. Worlds that are below this one, or perhaps next to it.
If food cannot be cooked to exist, it can be painted to exist. If people cannot return from death to dance with those that still live, they can be painted to dance together. If a boat or a camel cannot travel boldly into a post-apocalyptic earth, they can be painted to travel to a new future.
Home in an Odyssiac sense reveals itself in these paintings as outside the limits of time. There is imagery from the home of my past, but it exists in the present of the material paint and in the future of the piece’s content. There is also imagery of people who have functioned as homes.
Nomadic existence makes me crave the portability of home that canvas can provide. I paint to return and to move forward. I want to create the goodness that I have known: communitas, abundance, purpose, laughter. Going home is refueling and finding the confidence that derives from love and precedence.
I experience homecoming as I paint, with the hope that, when viewed, these paintings will brim with the recharging warmth that a t...
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