Gilt Bloom considers the beauty of tarnish, where bright silver gives way to rich gold and deep-aged bronze. A single splatter of paint thinner disrupts a fluid, rotating surface of oil paint, giving way to the work’s organic, cellular forms. Delicate concentric lines travel outward like the grooves of a record, creating rhythm and movement across the surface. The work embraces patina as a natural and inevitable process, interpreting the loss of shine not as deterioration, but as transformation.
Gilt Bloom considers the beauty of tarnish, where bright silver gives way to rich gold and deep-aged bronze. A single splatter of paint thinner disrupts a fluid, rotating surface of oil paint, giving way to the work’s organic, cellular forms. Delicate concentric lines travel outward like the grooves of a record, creating rhythm and movement across the surface. The work embraces patina as a natural and inevitable process, interpreting the loss of shine not as deterioration, but as transformation.