The Fine Art of M. K. Rozay

I believe in the existence of spiritual energies! They are there in all things past and present.  Yet invisible! I believe they want to be recognized, to be seen. Hence my inspiration for my work.

My process is similar to the activity of speaking in tongues. I allow these spirits to come forward and reveal themselves.  But rather than with an audible action, it takes place through physical motions with the paintbrush on canvas while performing traditional gestural abstraction. What I observe is what I believe is communicated to me, becoming my vision in the oils. This is how my painting’s subject matter begins to evolve.

My process continues as I work with the captured energies.  Where in most pieces, but not all, I appropriate potential foreground, background, and positive-negative space elements to open up composition possibilities. All of my work, however, goes through multiple cycles of improvisation, manipulation, and rotation, as well as reduction, where I must decide which spirit energies that have come forward can be worked with or painfully discarded in order for a particular developing composition to work. An example of my work containing all of these elements is Trapped Freedom. Like many of the others, at one point, its canvas as well was completely covered with captured spiritual energies before the process described resulted in what it ultimately became.

For the past year, I have begun working on a square matrix concept, where its format serves as an initial composition for where my process can be executed identically but instead repeated in a mathematically sound framework.  The resulting contrast between the subject matter and this square matrix format ultimately makes them compliment each other, offering the viewer an organizational processability of the piece.