FLUXUS (2022)
About every half-century it seems, we humans throw ourselves into a new era of self-destruction, usually chasing the mirage of power, regardless of the high failure rate. The cost is large for both destroyer and repairer, always revealing a fragile brute behind a gilded façade. So, the next generation’s repairers mend what is broken. Some of us get cut while the rest of us repair. Mend and destroy and heal again, until our scars build a stronger topography- both on land and skin- and we start again like a flower pushing through a stone. In this era of turmoil and renewal, I went to my studio and cut up my flowers on canvas, and began reconstructing a stronger flower than before, with the flux of the canvas against the chrome of a zipper. The original map restored, with the strength in the scar. - Paul Solberg, Manhattan, January 2023 | medium: unique 1/1 canvases with chrome, silk, cotton construction
