Emily Mcilroy

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Created from layered topographies of visual imagery, my paintings serve as metaphors for information seen and unseen, known and unknown, observed and intuited. The focus of my research has been a search for metaphysical evidence of life after death, and my practice has centered on developing a visual language that addresses a need to reconcile loss with an intuitive desire for connection. Composed of various laminae of both opaque and transparent paint, wax, mediums and sgraffitied surfaces, my works aspire to pictorially manifest the idea of reality as a fluctuating choreography of emergence and evanescence. My recent incorporation of marine imagery serves as a visual representation of a world to which we both do and do not belong, a metaphorical place for meeting with departed loved ones. There are certain spaces, both on land and underwater, that seem inhabited by the phantoms of everything that used to be. Now and then, I feel that if I look hard enough, I can find what I have lost. My work arises from the fantasy that I could somehow get it back.

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