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Untitled Paintings.  Acrylic on paper.  2019.  (Originals destroyed).

Created at the Centre d’apprentissage parallèle de Montréal (CAP) just before the global events of late 2019, this cycle of work explores the compelling line between rigid structure and human gesture. The project begins by deconstructing classical drawing; it takes the geometric cross-hatching typically used to build human figures and frees it into pure abstraction. By isolating the individual brushstroke as its own subject, the work connects deeply with Western and Eastern minimalist traditions. It evokes the quiet, vibrating restraint of Agnes Martin’s hand-drawn grids, while channeling the meditative, repetitive discipline of Park Seo-bo's Dansaekhwa practice and the focused, time-bearing gestures of Lee Ufan.

Across the series, these watercolour grids expand, drift, and collapse into distinct optical frequencies. In some pieces, the systematic matrix dissolves entirely into soft, mosaic-like patches of color reminiscent of Neo-Impressionist pointillism and the pulsing interior light of Edouard Vuillard. In others, the system sharpens into highly active, primary-color lattices where overlapping washes create a vibrant visual hum. Each mark documents a literal moment in time, capturing the natural variations of the artist’s hand, breath, and the progressive depletion of pigment on paper.

This presentation also marks a unique technological collaboration between analog history and artificial intelligence. The original archival images were captured in 2019 using primitive cell phone camera technology, which introduced harsh ambient glare, distorted colors, and flattened value ranges that obscured the artwork. Through a responsive digital restoration, AI was utilized to strip away this environmental noise—correcting the background paper and surrounding wall to a neutral white, while fully recovering the true transparency of the watercolor washes. This computational healing bridges the temporal gap between the work's creation and its current life, ensuring the delicate nuances of the original ink-work are preserved exactly as intended.