Location: United States
Hunter Wild was a video game designer and entrepreneur for the first few years of his adult life, before he spent several more to get his BA in philosophy from the University of North Texas in 2008. After a short break, during which he married his wonderful partner, Wild began to draw and paint prolifically, with no reason beyond an internal drive and no training or education in the subject.
When this proved unrelenting, he enrolled for another degree, this time in Fine Art. Quickly disenchanted by this experience, he withdrew after his first semester of introductory classes and immediately took it upon himself to generate art through methods, theories, and philosophies of art untaught to him.
Within the first few months of pursuing his focus of painting with watercolor on plastic, which usually consisted of 80-hour weeks and occasionally sleepless 40-hour painting sessions, he had a number of gallery shows under his belt and an unbridled hunger for artistic exploration. Still an autodidact, Wild pushes forward in a world of art of his own creation, guided by his own rules, and with an ambitious project.
Experience is so fluid, ambiguous, and ineffable. Communication about, rumination on, and the ability to give a description of an experience is only possible after Reason has had the opportunity to digest it. In this series I capture the briefest glimpse of this process, a point at which Reason begins to wrap its tentacles around particular sensations or phenomena, drawing them in, giving us the ability to think about and make sense of them. This is The Verge.
This series explores the point at which experience meets the imposition of reason. Watercolor on plastic; 25"x38".
This series explores the point at which experience meets the imposition of reason. Watercolor on plastic; 25"x38".
This series explores the point at which experience meets the imposition of reason. Watercolor on plastic; 25"x38".
This series explores the point at which experience meets the imposition of reason. Watercolor on plastic; 25"x38".
This series explores the point at which experience meets the imposition of reason. Watercolor on plastic; 25"x38".
This series explores the point at which experience meets the imposition of reason. Watercolor on plastic; 25"x38".
This series explores the point at which experience meets the imposition of reason. Watercolor on plastic; 25"x38".
This series explores the point at which experience meets the imposition of reason. Watercolor on plastic; 25"x38".
This series explores the point at which experience meets the imposition of reason. Watercolor on plastic; 25"x38".
This series explores the point at which experience meets the imposition of reason. Watercolor on plastic; 25"x38".
"We don't have to think like that anymore". The birth of a new flourishing; a paradigm shift of Being as subservient to Becoming. This series is really about a massive, pivotal shift in my perspective on both Eros and Love, which necessarily ruptures my identity. Watercolor on plastic; 26"x40".
The birth of a new flourishing; a paradigm shift of Being as subservient to Becoming. This series is really about a massive, pivotal shift in my perspective on both Eros and Love, which necessarily ruptures my identity. Watercolor on plastic; 26"x40".
The birth of a new flourishing; a paradigm shift of Being as subservient to Becoming. This series is really about a massive, pivotal shift in my perspective on both Eros and Love, which necessarily ruptures my identity. Watercolor on plastic; 26"x40".
The birth of a new flourishing; a paradigm shift of Being as subservient to Becoming. This series is really about a massive, pivotal shift in my perspective on both Eros and Love, which necessarily ruptures my identity. Watercolor on plastic; 26"x40".
The birth of a new flourishing; a paradigm shift of Being as subservient to Becoming. This series is really about a massive, pivotal shift in my perspective on both Eros and Love, which necessarily ruptures my identity. Watercolor on plastic; 25"x38".
The birth of a new flourishing; a paradigm shift of Being as subservient to Becoming. This series is really about a massive, pivotal shift in my perspective on both Eros and Love, which necessarily ruptures my identity. Watercolor on plastic; 26"x40".
“The Verge 17”
“The Verge 22”
“The Verge 25”
“The Verge 30”
“The Verge 33”
“The Verge 35”
“The Verge 38”
“The Verge 39”
“The Verge 41”
“The Verge 31”
“Wdhttlta 1”
“Wdhttlta 3”
“Wdhttlta 5”
“Wdhttlta 14”
“Wdhttlta 19”
“Wdhttlta 24”
