I am interested in looking at states of being; spaces and events that create many questions and answers, and can be looked at in positive and negative ways. My figures are seen caught in the split between air and ground.

I use figurative gesture, colour, composition and what I see as animated fabric to speak about these internal states. The "drama" found in the beauty and energy of the figurative gesture and the fabric speaks to me about the quiet internal dramas that are experienced everyday. The formal dress struggles with rigidity and confinement, perhaps societal expectations, internal pressures, as well as beauty, seduction, luxury and sophistication.

It is my intention to allow the viewer to explore in which state of being the figure falls.

E N T E R

A transition through fantasy, longing, desire, ambivalence and what is real.

Weightless: Where's Alice, 2012 oil on linen 30" x 30" Anne-Marie Kornachuk