“I used the elements of these simple forms – square, cube, line and color – to produce logical systems.” – Sol LeWitt
When I encounter Datu Arellano’s Parse This series, I think of the labour of painting monumental murals and covering over to make way for the next, creating and redacting, revealing and hiding. This coded and oblique world is a recurring theme in Arellano’s work, the construction of an inner-world that suggests quiet introspection, to be revealed only by the artist himself – or as he might suggest, an offer for the viewer to find their own process of decoding. Like LeWitt, Arellano provides a window into deeply thought systems, world-building even, and pathways to viewing the world differently through abstraction.
Excerpt written by Paschal Daantos Berry.
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