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My work is my way of meditation, a way of slowing down time though the careful observation of overlooked slices of my environment and the subtlety of the life and emotion of my acquaintances that inhabit the aforementioned environment. My paintings strive for reality, to mimic life in the scale and complexity of the subject being depicted so that the viewer is given a first person eyelevel perspective of the subject. A perspective that is unbiased and presents a figure’s raw condition or the grittiness of graffiti weathered alley walls in Brooklyn. It is my intent to control the medium of oil paint so that it is not part of the viewer to subject equation. (partial)

David Jon Kassan