Painting

Burrow

There is a quiet space between you and how you are known. In wisps you move, carrying a silence, an attention; a beginning of devotion. You are the quiet in between the looking, the constant beat of a memory.

Painting

Cradle

The intimacy of hands require an attention that is close. In the nail specifically, I speak to a part of a greater whole, something that is individual, singular, and focused. Here, I capture a moment of intimacy in detail, where knowing something... More

Painting

Flirt

This form being my most obvious representation of looking, I take on a fetishistic approach to observation, an obsession with the rendering and recreation of an image. This is beyond what the apple is, but what it is to know it. This knowing... More

Painting

Kiss Lock

I render the feeling of perception, how it may feel to run down the ridges of an exposed spine; like knuckles on a hand. The appearance of light on skin, the transparency and opacity of flesh; the quietness and stillness associated with looking.... More

Painting

Like a Charm

Hair is an understanding of line, the presence of repetition in each curve, an interaction with light. What is it to paint hair? To look at every strand, to repeat, to concentrate. Being present changes things; in this silence, this is how I read... More

Painting

Tender

Paying close attention to something familiar can open layers of understanding, like a quiet revelation. Painting is a proof of labour; proof of attention, the traces of an activity of the eyes. With this, notice the skin, its rawness, and crawl... More

Work by

Alana D'Agostino

“Silence is a gift; a mark of affection, an impression on a surface. It is in its stillness, in its mist, where we find ourselves. Open your hands and hold it in your mind. ...” [More]