Artist Statement

"My current work evolved from this contemplation--that the eye and brain conspire to make meaning, but are often fooled by a moment in context. The invitation is to explore our broader perspective, what shapes come forward and which ones recede. In life, as in art, our interpretive lens is uniquely distorted, shaped by the marks on our own palimpsest.

There is no story without elements in tension. Transparent and opaque, smooth and textured— each aspect amplifies the qualities of the other. The painting is always a palimpsest, a document of layers that build on one another. As a creative writer, I am interested in the overlap of story and image, the ways in which specific marks invoke a pre-linguistic syntax. Stains on raw canvas as adjectives, hard-lined shapes as concrete nouns. What seems most solid is a mere reaction to what lies beneath it."

- Keren Toledano