Seeing Consciously Subconscious
Artist: Dennis Khalil Year: 2023
Medium: Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle
Dimensions: 120 x 67.5 cm
Edition: 1 + 1 AP (Artist’s Proof)
Artist’s Statement
A Dialogue with Nature
The interplay between conscious and subconscious processing is a fundamental aspect of the human experience. As an artist, it is also the space in which the most interesting work happens—at the threshold between what we know we are seeing and what we are perceiving beyond our own awareness.
In this series, Khalil enters into dialogue with the tulips he photographs. Over fourteen days—meeting several times daily—a conversation unfolds that operates on multiple levels simultaneously: conscious and subconscious, visual and sensory, rational and intuitive.
The story the tulips tell is constructed through multiple images assembled into a single composition. What emerges is not a record of what the flowers looked like, but an account of what they communicated across the full arc of their existence.
“We breathe each other in and out of existence, one made by the exhalation of the other.”
— Monica Gagliano
A Question of Authorship
Ultimately, this work asks a question that has no clean answer: is the artist telling the story of the tulip, or is the tulip making the artist tell its story? The series does not resolve this ambiguity. It inhabits it.
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