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My work explores the boundaries and potential of corrosive metals and natural ephemeral material in painting. I capture the color and movement that occurs in the properties of individual elements during the process of corrosion. Metal is laid behind the canvas and stained by working from the front with different solutions, which bring the corrosive property through the canvas as it breaks down other various materials.
Process and material are the most important aspects of my creative method. My vigorous, repetitive motions act as an imprint and recording of the harsh interaction between destruction and rebirth. I am aware of the impermanence in these images, and embrace this factor in my studio practice. These paintings act as relics that expresses the impact and power nature has on our man-made materials. As we continue to value the creations of man we often forget that nature inevitably wins the battle of time in which we are then left to marvel in how nature reclaims the space and material it once owned. These paintings exhibit the complex relationship that exists within our society and nature as well as the intricate battle that takes place in nature itself when left to its own devices.
“There is a tangible depth to Siedt’s paintings that I don’t often feel when viewing most non-representational works. The palettes and textures that are chosen somehow are evocative of a feeling or vague setting almost immediately, and it doesn’t shift once locked in. It only cements itself further the longer it is studied. These paintings are depictions of sentience, manifesting in hidden corners of the wilderness, holding congress on matters never to be known by human minds and never meant to be witnessed by human eyes. There are secrets being told here.” Review by Daniel Fortunato