Inspirational Comtemplation

A beautiful collision of Art Deco and Bauhaus expressed with a gestural flare, Andrew Hollimon’s Inspirational Contemplation addresses honesty and ambiguity. The work offers a staggering number of visual avenues and flights of fancy. The eye can wander through the thick impasto and enigmatic yellows and oranges of the right-hand corner’s richly painted column, become lost in the phantasmagoric center’s gradations of blue or take in the canvas as a whole. One could construct several convincing arguments for competing focal points of the painting, but ultimately Hollimon does not prescribe a direction. Instead, he allows the viewer to find their own center or (and, I think most importantly) revel in its kaleidoscopic mystery. Some things cannot be explained or understood fully; things that can be felt more than expressed; the ambiguity of existence. Ambiguity is the ultimate spice of life. A state of ambiguity can be uncomfortable and terrifyingly uncertain but immeasurably freeing. Out of ambiguity comes imagination; we do the things we understand and think about the things that mystify us.