Marie Kazalia

I am an artist and I work with artist paints on canvas, paper and panel. My interest is in the multiple possibilities of poured paint--also known as process painting--the varying of flow, line, overlap, interference, form, layers, texture, color and surface. My paintings contain this signature visual element of poured paint intermingled with  elements of Asemic writing and acrylic image transfer techniques. Asemic writing consists of written language forms that are reminiscent of written language characters yet are unreadable as writing. My asemic writing is especially informed by my formal language studies of written and conversational Mandarin Chinese at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, in China. Working with written characters, cutting up, abstracting, juxtaposing Asian language characters and signs together visually, sometimes over sometimes under poured paint, or even sandwiched between layers. These elements I layer and builds up on the canvas in a dense bricolage, resulting in surprisingly varied results per canvas with the repetition of these techniques and recurring interests. Each canvas contains traces of what is significant to me, the artist--personal progress, growth, shift, changes, expansions, forward motion, accumulation of thought and work day upon day at various levels, and contained within the layers of the paintings, as idea and form merge with the spirituality of practice.