Vertigo by Scott Hutchison

Title:	Vertigo
Date Created:	2019
Copyright:	© Scott Allen Hutchison
Genre:	Unpublished Art
Mediums:	Oils
Views:	459
Posted:	11/29/2019

Projects: My paintings and drawings are conceived by combining the use of photography, animation techniques, projections, and digital manipulation to create multifaceted figures that appear to move and animate. One painting may consist of four or five different time frames. Overlapping echoes, a figure may merge into another or become a haunting monstrous abstraction. My compositions are piece together digitally influenced heavily by my experience creating oil painted animations. In animation, the viewer sees a moving image created by separate time frames shown in quick succession. However, in this body of work the viewer is presented with multiple time frames at once. The result is a body of work that embraces realism, surrealism and abstraction. Each piece is intentionally shrouded in mystery, letting the viewer interpret its various meanings. However, I am fascinated by time, the idea of self, and the way in which I can evoke an urgency of being freed from the confines of self. Life is a series of ever changing events and time in its infinite step changes us. In an age of selfies, one portrait, or one moment in time does not capture the essence of who we are. We are many things.

Location: Washington DC

21" diam Oil on Aluminum Scott Hutchison's Vertigo is a colorful painting of rhythmically placed hands circling around the crown of a male figure. Scott uses his unique subject matter and style to imaginatively represent the human form. The translucent colors and blending effects in his oils are meant to represent time passing, a fading moment, a memory or movement. Vertigo has a special meaning for Scott. It is a visual representation of when he had vertigo. It manifested itself a few months after neck surgery and subsequent radiation therapy. Of course, with all of Scott's work, the viewer may interpret the work in a multitude of ways.