(W) Michael Dumontier, Neil Farber (A/CA) Michael Dumontier, Neil Farber
Constructive Abandonment is a series of small paintings featuring surreal vignettes with animals and children weighed down by the pressures of life.With absurdly comedic interactions, the text varies from straightforward to even more abstract and nonsensical than the images that it accompanies. The paintings reference child's play or literature and others are seemingly without reference, completely untethered. Pages that could be forgettable one-liners become investigations into intellect and our ability to draw correlations between contradictory elements in a single image.