Paris Everyday | Uniting Time to a Tradition of Uninterrupted Beauty

BEAUTY IS RESISTANCE. BEAUTY IS NOT NEUTRAL. 

IT IS A SITE OF CONFLICT. IT DISRUPTS HIERARCHIES.

For me, beauty was a resource that was in scarce supply throughout my life and it's attainment, a potential worth meditating on. When I detached from reality after identifying the body of my friend in Paris, in my mind, in my imagination, I shrouded myself with the architecture of the city. I wore the limestone like a cape to overcome the affects of the experience. My mind was the site of conflict as I was separated from inner and outward safety. My practice is personal, it documents my attempts at staying connected with the material world around me. This symbolic relationship and compulsion is called "anchoring" which is a common byproduct that often accompanies agoraphobic disorders. Paris broke me and Paris saved me. 

Collectors of my work are drawn to the indestructible nature of my soul and the manner in which I explore deeply material and conceptual territory. The part of me that was mentally suspended but simultaneously rooted in long form inquiry.  

STONES HAVE VOICES | An entire language of feeling and memory has been repressed beneath rock. Hand-crafted tongues hold still, frozen for generations, yearning to speak their secrets -to discuss what they have witnessed but can not declare. 

I am more than an artist. I am an interpreter for the unvoiced. I define “stone” as abstract flesh and do not restrict the classification to minerals. Stones can be statues. Stones can be children. Every “stone” reveals itself as a hardened structure housing confined significance.

My passion compels me to study these stones; identify their unvoiced desires, question the weight of their past -acknowledge the pressure of being forced to hold a single stance eternally. I clarify their personal history, trace their fractured emotional connections, measure, affirm, and reconcile their positions. Through painting, I translate the internal universe restricted within stone, to make the subjects understandable by viewers who have only stood outside with judgement and not from within with consideration; reconditioning a culture that gazes at surfaces objectively as an audience, but never dared to approach the more private inner atmosphere of stone. 

I sign each painting with two letters KZ -the first letter of my first name and the last letter of my surname because when I approach the canvas I am giving the totality of myself, from beginning to end. 

Be you for you,

"Being an artist means seeing things and never being able to shut your eyes."     —Keariene Muizz