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Melissa Barry
Melissa Barry

Grounded by the Process

but Guided by Intuition

Melissa Barry

Each painting in the "Fragmented" series combines images of various locations in America and Asia which have personal meaning. I am interested in how multiple landscapes with shifting scale and color can be ambiguous and yet soothing, evoking solitude, serenity, and reverence for wilderness in its primal state; rocks, trees, water, the patterns in nature, and its underlying math and geometry. Using an SLR digital camera to photograph landscapes, I alter the computer images, manipulating composition, color, and scale. Projected images are painted onto a rectilinear canvas in a photorealistic style, referencing order and tradition. Veils of color or abstract shapes may be incorporated, symbolizing fog, time of day, or mood. Grounded by the process but guided by intuition, I juxtapose scenes and individual objects and distort scale or shape to suggest a chaotic world in constant flux. In doing so, my intention is to suggest that reality, or our perception of it, consists of many contingencies.