An Everything Seed 7-10., 2011

$4,000.00

Everything-10 (series).

"All that can start from a seed" (white lettering).

Acrylic & oil on peasant linen mounted over a unique handmade wood stretcher, framed.

23 1/2 x 29 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.

59.69 x 73.98 x 6.35 cm.

Shipping: Email art@thomaszanz.com for inquiries.

Everything-10 (series).

"All that can start from a seed" (white lettering).

Acrylic & oil on peasant linen mounted over a unique handmade wood stretcher, framed.

23 1/2 x 29 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.

59.69 x 73.98 x 6.35 cm.

Shipping: Email art@thomaszanz.com for inquiries.

  • Everything-10 traces a quiet, cyclical narrative embedded within the rhythm of its ten panels. A blue circular form rises, drifts, and eventually descends across the sequence, echoing the tempo of days, decades, and entire lives. The frames themselves—baby blue for the first five works, pink for the next four, and black for the final painting—extend this progression, introducing a subtle conceptual structure: emergence, encounter, and eventual conclusion. The story is elemental and universal, not biographical; it gestures toward “boy,” “girl,” and “ending” without illustrating any of them, allowing viewers to project their own beginnings and endings into the work.

    Across the installation, handwritten word-phrases tumble from one canvas to the next in a kind of visual somersaulting. They animate the piece without requiring electricity or interaction beyond looking and turning one’s body. Children turn instinctively; adults follow, becoming part of the work’s choreography. The text, made deliberately impermanent, will fade over time—leaving only the color, the movement of paint, and the residue of choices and chance.

    In each panel, controlled gesture meets intentional unpredictability through the artist’s signature technique, F.O.L.P. (Figure of Limited Predictability). These acts of release—where paint is allowed to stretch, separate, collide, and behave according to its own internal physics—anchor the series in a lineage of material-driven abstraction. F.O.L.P. functions as a conceptual engine: part discipline, part surrender. The work holds a structural spine beneath it, yet allows the medium to assert itself in ways that cannot be fully predetermined. What remains is a sequence that reads simultaneously as narrative and non-narrative, personal and anonymous, structured and impulsive. The result is a meditation on the way lives unfold—not in clean chapters, but in overlapping motions, fading words, accumulating color, and unplanned gestures that ultimately connect one moment to the next.

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