Collection: Colbert Mashile

“Since my move from the city to a more rural area in 2004, things have changed drastically. I think while I was in the city I became more detached from the original place that shaped my soul, and I looked back at my origins with a peculiar eye that probed for certain truths and phobias - thus my then persistent theme of initiation rituals. Now that I have moved back, I've once again become apart of that rural community, a society in which I just seem to jell, and it has now become even difficult for me to detach myself like I use to”.
“My painting is transformed in many ways. I start with a conscious play of image that barely suggests anything literal, until at a later stage some form of distant narrative starts to take shape. Mostly I link what I see on the format to open-ended social comments. I'm currently fascinated by broken lines of communication resulting from various stereotypes. I see the confusion between people from all levels and backgrounds as having to do with certain common human eras inspired by strange stereotypes”.