New American Paintings

Michael Haight

Los Angeles, CA

Maustinhaight@gmail.com / www.haight.space / @haight.space

My arts practice is intertwined with my Buddhist practice. Themes of compassion, suffering, cycles of death and birth,, about the nights when my friends and I drank until sunrise, each image is anchored by the inevitable sunrise—a new beginning selfishly ignored by those seeking to elongate the nighttime. The work in my series focuses on giving and receiving, exerting control and being controlled, and the benefits of blessings—essentially the simultaneous narratives of interaction that pervade in all directions.

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