Portals : Transmutations
“Portals: Transmutations” examines the force of action changing our world and ourselves. We are under constant bombardment to change and adapt ourselves, to sink or to swim in order to survive. Facing radioactive decay or similar processes. Forced to make choices while sorting through information and disinformation. Forced to risk assess our basic needs. Struggling to dream again. Under overwhelming pressure, we search for moments of hope, moments of escape, moments to become something more. Portals leading somewhere other than we are, where we have been or maybe somewhere we are going.
North Carolina based artist Zac Trainor works with concepts and imagery that explore the alternate realities of our existence. Ghostly, layered, + nostalgic: There’s a confident loneliness that lends the viewer to self reflection, evoking a meditation on both the beautiful and harsh realities of this world, and the mystery or defeat of what may lie beyond. Each work is meant as a dialogue with the past, present, and future, not at separate instances, but rather all moments occurring at once.