KEN CRO-KEN
                             
         
SPEED ELEMENT PAINTS
About my painting methods and the ideas that come from it.

I feel a need to strike a balance between my inner and outer self,

as these activated paint experiments force me to be more sensitive to things outside myself.

If I lose this equilibrium I can become an intruder to my own painting

and potentially scar a Speed Element paint experiment;

and the same can be said of our relationship with nature.

"Long Island and Connecticut",  40"x30"                                                                                             2001       
                                                                                                                                                     
       
“The second mode in early Abstract Expressionism, in addition to the primal sign, 
is an interest in the dynamic and creative process of nature.  
Metaphors for, or the suggestion of the birth of the world, or the creation of order out of chaos, are evident… 
But however connected to the natural environment, 
the physical evolution of nature was always tied to the psychological evolution of humanity.
”JACKSON POLLOCK - MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE", by Claude Cernuschi, 2005




I learn about paint and nature simultaneously and grow closer to nature as it reveals its every influence.


"Coming Attractions", 30" x 24"                                                                                                                                January 2009


What I rely upon is a triad of realistic, abstract and the actual.
What I see most about paint is not color but that it is an object that is subject to nature
and therefore use paint as a vehicle for understanding the actual world
through this physical investigation of our planet.

My paints, Speed Elements, offer unique methods of painting landscapes in a new millennium.


"A Brief Moment in Time" (Negative image),  48" x 36"                                                                                                     2001


THESE ARE ACTUAL SATELLITE VIEWS AND SPEED ELEMENT PAINTINGS


The Yucatan Peninsula                                                                                                                             2007      

"Shoreline"                                                                                                                                                                                            2001

As a true experimentalist, I prefer to create unique experiments that I do not know the basic outcome.



      

KC-K Roof Top Studio, East Village, N.Y.                                                           ( 2001 on left,  &  2007 on right )


 
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 All the art work/photos that appears here have been taken by KC-K or Becket Logan.
 *Becket Logan,  photographer,  30 East 20th Street, Studio 302, New York, N.Y. 10003   212 982-2765

* Of course any space photos provided by NASA


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