Chad Miller Workspace
Visual Art and Writing by Chad R. Miller
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“Refuge”
2021 — 2022
I have always looked for quiet places to get away from distractions and annoyances. Sometimes it was a library or gym, but more often it was a bike trail or a hiking trail or a wetland or a lakeshore. In the last couple of years it has mostly been the studio — a place where I can be myself and also lose myself. I also found in these years that I wasn’t just taking refuge in the space, but in the materials themselves. I lost my self in experiencing the pure visceral push and pull of seeing the way paint takes to paper, the way ink spreads across a panel, the way paint mixes itself on the brush and on the canvas, the way lines and clouds and fields of color take form.