Genie Maples
 

Statement: The Hard Bright Truth paintings

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These paintings are elaborate. They elaborate on my experience of life, of shattering loss, of the twisty, loopy passage of time and relationship and withering and renewal.

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Of overwhelm and exhale.

Painting is one of several art practices - drawing, stitching, assemblage, writing and more - that are necessary to my return from the disorientation of a multi-pronged cluster of shattering experiences.

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Every true catastrophe is a catastrophe magnet. Every deep faultline continues to rock the very earth. I'm not alone in that experience, but I am utterly alone in the particulars of it, as every shattered being is. 

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Lost.

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But also home in myself because I am aware I am not at home in the world.

 

“Lost” is a state of being that has an inexplicable place-ness to it, with a richness and complexity in direct proportion to the amount of curiosity I’m able to maintain in any moment.

 

These paintings are the cartography and relic of my

exploration.