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Chaos of Reality
Seven paintings. Eight years of recovery behind them. Michael C. Myers paints with the limbs he has left - hurling, striking, and gouging paint onto canvas to bypass the neural pathways an accident took from him. Black structures carry the trauma. Crimson and magenta carry the hope.
"I am still here. I am still creating. I still exist."
01 — Chaos of Reality
The Kinetic Scar
Stark black diagonals cut across a weathered gray field. Painted using kinetic, sweeping motion to bypass the neural pathways my injury left behind — the scar isn't hidden here, it's the composition. The diagonal is the new route my body found when the old one was gone.
02 — CHAOS OF REALITY
The Mark of Existence
Raw, unsmoothed texture, left exactly where it landed - proof of a physical act, not a polished illustration of one. I didn't want this one to look effortless. I wanted it to look like it cost something to make, because it did.
03 — CHAOS OF REALITY
The Fragment and the Whole
Bold, deliberate brushstrokes cut through a field of fractured shapes, borrowing from a teaching on impermanence. I don't paint the fragments to make them whole again — I paint the stroke that moves through them anyway.
04 — CHAOS OF REALITY
Eight Winters, One Spring
Dark, heavy tones ring the outer edge of this canvas and slowly give way to a vibrant, glowing center. Eight years — eight winters — of chronic pain and recovery, and the single spring that finally broke through.
05 — CHAOS OF REALITY
The Ghost Pitch
An off-balance black structure leans across a field of grass green — a soccer pitch that isn't quite there anymore. The most direct piece in the series about what the accident actually took: a leg, and the career I was building on it.
06 - CHAOS OF REALITY
Yet I Live
Heavy, structural black arcs anchor this canvas, but it's the open white space around them that carries the weight - breathing room, reclaimed the hard way, through survival. Whatever the black arcs represent, they didn't get the last word.
07 — BEYOUND THE SERIES
Thank You by Me
A bonus piece outside the core set, where Abstract Expressionism meets Japanese calligraphy. The title is exactly what it says - this one is my thank-you, made the only way I know how to say it.
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Michael C. Myers
Original abstract expressionist paintings born from survival, resilience, and the refusal to stop creating.
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