Silas Plum
THE ANATOMICAL BRAIN
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This image shows a brain shape in bright orange, blue, and brown. The image appears marbeled and may have bubbles of paint. The background is painted black.
HEADACHE
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This image shows a black background and galaxies formed from red paint. A red and gold circle like a snarl or blot sits at the center of the image. This blot takes up about 1/5 of the space on the canvas.
THE ANATOMICAL HEART
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: On a black background. a marbeled shape made from many bright colors resembles an anatomical heart. The heart's colors are red, yellow, blue, and white. These colors shade together to add patches of brown and green to the shape.
Artist statement:
"Headache" comes from a point of frustration with the limitations of the body. The inability to interact with a liminal space free from the constraints of flesh. In particular, the inequality present within the relationship of the mental to the physical. A headache can ruin a good mood more easily than a bad mood can ruin your body, at least in the short term. Part of the process of making physical art is the translation of something ephemeral into something practical. “The Anatomical Brain" and "The Anatomical Heart” are companion pieces. They stem from the passing and relatively unoriginal thought that we spend our entire lives with and are entirely dependent on these masses of muscle and nerves, but, with few exceptions, we never see or touch them. These paintings are talismanic. They stand in.