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Blind Corners, Portals and Turning Points

Blind Corners, Portals and Turning Points

 

Ron Mills's paintings point to what in creation is fragile, even possibly frail, in a world of powerful simmering explosions of color and beautiful molecular sub-realities. The delicate and sometimes daunting balance in nature we sense when we see Mills’s best work has nothing to do with insubstantiality, but rather his work evokes what is truly essential, uncovering the fundamental nature of being beyond individual parts to show true essence. We see organic raw material mingled to become enigmatic organisms with self will. Are we viewing construction or deconstruction? The emerging or submerging in the primordial soup of life? Are we witnesses to active forces creating, evolving slowly from essence through individual definition of parts to the final becoming of an organism or are we viewing the reverse process? The becoming is governed by the essence of what is trying to push to the foreground. It can feel threatening because it feels unstable to the observer and unveils what we have always feared deep inside, that the world is capricious and unpredictable. We are confronted with the dichotomy of creation, good and evil, but mostly the uneasy feeling of randomness in creation. The possibility, likelihood, of this wantonness in creation challenges our determinist view and the sense of order we labor to bring to our lives. We can experience the deconstruction of what is, threatening what we think as concrete and real. In Mills’s paintings we do not know if we are seeing the beginning or the end, but we know we are seeing the essence of organic life going through molecular metamorphosis with all its colorful, textural, and at times terrible beauty.

María Isabel Piñas Espigulé, March 2010

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  • Above and Below; All that Has Happened (Debajo y por Encima de Todo Lo que Ha Oscurrido) by Ronald Mills de Pinyas

    Above and Below; All that Has Happened (Debajo y por Encima de Todo Lo que Ha Oscurrido)

  • Blind Corners, Portals and Turning Points 01 by Ronald Mills de Pinyas

    Blind Corners, Portals and Turning Points 01

  • Blind Corners, Portals and Turning Points 02 by Ronald Mills de Pinyas

    Blind Corners, Portals and Turning Points 02

  • Installation: "Blind Corners, Portals and Turning Points" by Ronald Mills de Pinyas

    Installation: "Blind Corners, Portals and Turning Points"

  • That which Boils (Lo que Hierve) by Ronald Mills de Pinyas

    That which Boils (Lo que Hierve)

  • The Past in the Present (El Pasado en el Presente) by Ronald Mills de Pinyas

    The Past in the Present (El Pasado en el Presente)

  • This Moment of Incertitude (Ese Momento de Incertidumbre) by Ronald Mills de Pinyas

    This Moment of Incertitude (Ese Momento de Incertidumbre)

  • Who and What Inspires Me? (¿Quién y Qué Me Inspira?) by Ronald Mills de Pinyas

    Who and What Inspires Me? (¿Quién y Qué Me Inspira?)

  • Between the Past and Our Present (Entre el Pasado y Nuestro Presente) by Ronald Mills de Pinyas

    Between the Past and Our Present (Entre el Pasado y Nuestro Presente)

  • Bonfire (Hoguera) by Ronald Mills de Pinyas

    Bonfire (Hoguera)

  • El Espacio entre Nosotros by Ronald Mills de Pinyas

    El Espacio entre Nosotros

  • Essence (Esencia) by Ronald Mills de Pinyas

    Essence (Esencia)

 
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