
Incident at Sea 18 (Christiana)

Living room

Incident at Sea 18c (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 31 (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 34 (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 31b (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 31c (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 19 (Christiana)

Room with white wall and wooden floor with white pouf and grey modern armchair. Bright room interior mockup. Empty room for mockup. 3d rendering.

Mermaid 02 (Christiana)

Room with white wall and wooden floor with white pouf and grey modern armchair. Bright room interior mockup. Empty room for mockup. 3d rendering.

Incident at Sea 55 & 56b (Christiana)

Macrocosm In Violet 4a (Christiana)

Macrocosm In Violet 4b (Christiana)

Incident At Sea 55 & 56 (Christiana)

Incident At Sea 32b (Christiana)

Incident A tSea 32 (Christiana)

Room with white wall and wooden floor with white pouf and grey modern armchair. Bright room interior mockup. Empty room for mockup. 3d rendering.

Macrocosm In Violet 5b (Christiana)

Macrocosm In Violet 5a (Christiana)

Mermaid 06 (Christiana)

Living room

Wormhole 01 (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 82 (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 86 (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 32a (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 32 (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 84a (Christiana)

Room with white wall and wooden floor with white pouf and grey modern armchair. Bright room interior mockup. Empty room for mockup. 3d rendering.

Incident at Sea 84 (Christiana)

Room with white wall and wooden floor with white pouf and grey modern armchair. Bright room interior mockup. Empty room for mockup. 3d rendering.

Mermaid 08 (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 74b (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 74 (Christiana)

Digression 1b (Christiana)

Mermaid 05 (Christiana)

Mermaid 05b (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 77 (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 77b (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 73 (Christiana)

Living room

Digression 1 (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 85 (Christiana)

Room with white wall and wooden floor with white pouf and grey modern armchair. Bright room interior mockup. Empty room for mockup. 3d rendering.

Mermaid 04 (Christiana)

Chlorophyll Cell 01b (Christiana)

Chlorophyll Cell 01

Encaustic Sea 2 (Christiana)

Encaustic Sea 1 (Christiana)

Melancholy 1a (Christiana)

Melancholy (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 94(Christiana)

Incident At Sea 94a (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 96 (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 96a (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 53 (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 53a (Christiana)

Minimalistic workspace desktop with computer on table and blank concrete wall. Mock up, 3D Rendering

Encaustic Sunrise 3 (Christiana)

Encaustic Sunrise 2a (Christiana)

Encaustic Sunrise 2 (Christiana)
Joseph Christiana
Oil and Resin Painting
Each of these works is a taut negotiation. I set out with my vision, and then must come to terms with how the moment, the medium, and the process alter that vision. It’s humbling. I make concessions. I guide the work to what it tells me it wants to be using a blow torch, a palette knife, and gravity to coax it, sometimes to trick it.
I find making these works, then, an analog for the act of living itself- expectation vs reality, coming to terms with the limits of your control over circumstance. Or akin to what I imagine performing improvisational music is like- your subservience to the moment.
When all is right, we (the painting and I) find peace with one another, even as the end result often evinces tumult. I find the aftermath of the conflict beautiful, almost always.
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