Joseph Di Bella

A question of the sublime that ties the infinitely massive to the infinitely small underlies much of this work. While the scale of these extremes is incomprehensible, what I work toward is a concept of order that is neither solid nor stagnant but that is immaterial and unfolding. It manifests itself in tentative balances between antagonists, divisions, separations and confluence of disparate elements of media, technique, representation, abstraction, pattern, and color. These elements frequently yield to tension through unstable or disrupted symmetry, syncopated repetition and layered tonalities. I often reference cloud chamber tracks, cloud formations, ocean currents maps, supernova and cellular configurations.