
Incident at Sea 34 (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 19 (Christiana)

Mermaid 01 (Christiana)

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)

Macrocosm In Violet 5b (Christiana)

Macrocosm In Violet 5a (Christiana)

Wormhole 01a (Christiana)

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)

Incident at Sea 84 (Christiana)

Mermaid 08b (Christiana)

Mermaid 08 (Christiana)

Digression 1b (Christiana)

Mermaid 05 (Christiana)

Mermaid 05b (Christiana)

Digression 1 (Christiana)

Mermaid 04b (Christiana)

Mermaid 04 (Christiana)

Chlorophyll Cell 01b (Christiana)

Chlorophyll Cell 01

Encaustic Sea 2 (Christiana)

Encaustic Sea 1 (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 94 (Christiana)

Incident At Sea 94a (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 53 (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 53a (Christiana)

Encaustic Sunrise 3a (Christiana)

Encaustic Sunrise 3 (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 98 (Christiana)

Siren 0123a (Christiana)

Siren 0123 (Christiana)

Siren 1022a (Christiana)

Siren 1022 (Christiana)

Incident at Sea 96a (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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