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DANIEL SEWELL
The quality of spray paint modulates
between very opaque
to nearly translucent, creating
interlocking shapes that
lead the viewer’s eye around
the image eventually reaching
the edges in a phosphorescent
glow rescinding into
the background.
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Peering through the many layers as if seeing into the
process of creation itself, we get an understanding of
the playfulness and inventiveness of American artist, Daniel
Sewell, as he works. The quality of spray paint modulates
between very opaque to nearly translucent, creating
interlocking shapes that lead the viewer’s eye around the
image eventually reaching the edges in a phosphorescent
glow rescinding into the background.
Sewell’s inspiration is very much in tune with the natural
world and the personal expression of it. Great movements
of the 20th century, in particular Cubism, have also intrigued
Sewell. “I’m deliberately continuing the tradition of Cubism,
as well as other important disciplines during the modern
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