where he over-painted onto his pixel-by-pixel photoreal oil paintings of social and political documentary images – in order to re-act and paint his experience of the pandemic unfolding in real time. So he devised a system where once he was struck by a story he would digitally print it, mount it and within a day begin to over-paint, in a state he describes as “not thinking”.Quinn studio
Quinn describes the screen as his “window to the world”. As we know too well the screen, our digital media and our networked social media have been psychologically proven to be responsible for desensitising and dehumanising us as individuals for many years. This feeling of atomisation and dissociation has now been accelerated in this pandemic moment.
“If I’m not in the right zone I can’t do it, it’s very much about letting go of everything, and not thinking,” says Quinn about the trance-like process he puts himself through daily to synthesise the contemporary noise he’s filtering through these performative action paintings. “It’s only afterwards when I look at it that I understand what I’ve done.
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