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| | The New Gallery - Thom Andriola - Houston, Texas Contemporary Fine Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | This is an attempt to re-present the experience of walking through the world using the graphic relics meant to guide the walking through the world- borders, roadways, rivers, the shapes of territories, of lakes, shorelines, - re-applied, resulting in a complexity, a richness, a more accurate map. |
 | | This pattern is then traced onto one of a variety of materials and layered, complicating identity, referencing the accumulation of events, a reading of a geological history, an unfolding limited by the frame of the container, the edge of the world, and veiled by the frozen surface of the new whole. |
 | | The shoreline retains only the inner identity, the paint flows away from the origin, recombining and obscuring previous layers, forming shared territories, the new soft edges hinting at a non-existent three dimensional referent, the new visual whole alluding to different elements, the organic, the construction of history, the compressed post-travel experience.” |
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