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Boston Skyline from Castle Island in Fog 2
$100.00

Isolated photographic fragment on fine linen art paper.

8×10 (before matting)

current run

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Original limited edition art prints by John Korbas (N3V3R), resident artist of Boston since 2018.

ARTIST STATEMENT

CREATING IN WAVES

My artistic practice has long centered on the relationship between structure and improvisation. Working across music, painting, animation, and performance, I have explored how layered systems—whether sonic, visual, or emotional—can reveal tensions between duality and unity, identity and universality. As a multi-instrumentalist and producer, I developed compositions that merged classical frameworks with abstract improvisation; similarly, my acrylic paintings and animated works combined controlled form with spontaneous gesture, often blending stop-frame imagery with original sound to create immersive visual narratives.

My current body of work moves in a markedly different direction. Where earlier projects embraced density and complex arrangements, these recent photographic pieces pursue reduction, silence, and restraint. Using overexposure and light-based photographic processes, I isolate fragments of both natural and man-made environments until only minimal contours remain—thin black outlines suspended within open space. Printed on linen art paper, the works emphasize texture, absence, and subtle material presence.

This process is less about documentation and more about perception. By stripping imagery down to its most essential traces, the work invites a slower form of observation: a reconsideration of the overlooked structures, rhythms, and ephemeral light that shape our daily surroundings. The resulting images exist between representation and abstraction, recognition and ambiguity.

Although minimalist in appearance, the work continues my ongoing interest in interpretation and universal form. The same dialogue between control and improvisation that informed my music and painting persists here through light itself—unpredictable, transient, and impossible to fully contain. These pieces reflect an attempt to locate clarity not through accumulation, but through reduction.

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