David Colvin | Curiouser & Curiouser: Dichotomies in a Canadian Context

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David Colvin, “Neglected Clotheslines #3,” 2023

(courtesy of the artist)

Although my work is primarily representational and features hints of the surreal, at the centre of all that, what I try to accomplish artistically, is to produce a measure of personal identification in the viewer. My pieces are presented with buried narratives; unclear stories that will often be translated differently by each individual. I try to accomplish this by introducing dichotomies and visual metaphors, such as minstrels strumming while basilicas burn, curling rocks made from jam cans, and tumbling umbrellas and vermillion bedsheets that twist through wind-whipped skies above darkened neighborhoods. Through this exhibit, it is my goal to evoke the emotional memories of those who see my work, and to challenge them to look more carefully at their own worlds.