Brittany Moore
This is a portrait of my sister, Carly. She travelled the world as an international model, walking runways for many top designers. Immersed in a no sleep, social elitist life where perfectionism is not only existent, but expected. A world that thrives on breaking you. To come out the other side is a feat that only the endured self can comprehend. This rings true for all of us living our own individual experiences and the weight that has on forming our thoughts and behaviours.
This painting depicts a state of emotional exhaustion. The social battery has expired before the party has ended. The amount of energy required to wind her up, allotted for a very small window to maintain the façade of enjoyment.
The negative space in this composition is just as significant as the subject herself and a projection of my own struggles with dissociation. Paralyzed in thought and disconnected from your surroundings. The subject is captured in an anxious state, isolated and disconnected from everything but a little party animal. A piece of the imagination that’s brought forth a friend to share the silence with. The only two drinking from a teacup, play statue together in a world of their own.
Subject: Carly
Spill the tea, 2023, oil on board, 24” x 20”
Brittany Moore is an award-winning emerging artist based in Kingston Ontario who paints paradoxical portraits that explore an alternate state of self.
After three years of playing professional basketball in Europe, the greatest challenge came at the conclusion of elite sport, facing quite a loss in identity. In a time of darkness, the brilliance of creation, colour and form finally shed its light. Painting shifted her purpose to a world of imagination and endless possibility.
Brittany looks to find consistencies in others that deepen our understanding of ourselves. Through art, she is interested in capturing the essence of reality, however, like reality, what we question begins with the questioning of normality. Shedding light on the incongruity of life can leave one in a seemingly impossible paradox. Brittany wishes for viewers to open their hearts to the possibility of the unknown and feel from not one, but several different perspectives.