{"title":"Consumed","description":"\u003cp\u003eMy students threw away more paint than they used. I began peeling the dried skins off their palettes — pounds of color, hardened, discarded before it ever reached a canvas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery work here is made from that waste. Nothing new was bought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat the waste becomes is the subject: flood, fire, hurricane, retreating ice, the drain, the pipe, the sewage. We take more than we need and call the remainder someone else’s problem. Fire does not distinguish between the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe consume. Then we are consumed.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"flood","title":"Flood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFlood\u003c\/strong\u003e — Reclaimed Acrylic on Panel\u003cbr\u003e48\" × 48\" | 2023 | Damon DeWitt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMade entirely from paint my students threw away — dried skins peeled off abandoned palettes, pounds of color hardened and discarded before it ever reached a canvas. Nothing new was bought for this work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe waste is pressed, layered and built back into relief until it becomes the thing it depicts: a flood. Debris caught in a current. Acid greens and cadmium oranges crest along the top edge, a bleached channel cuts through the center, and deep teals pool in the lower right where the water settles and stays.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the \u003cem\u003eConsumed\u003c\/em\u003e series. We take more than we need and call the remainder someone else's problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMedium: Reclaimed acrylic paint on panel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSize: 48\" × 48\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYear: 2023\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOriginal, one-of-a-kind work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSigned by the artist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Damon DeWitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44907712905309,"sku":"DDW-CN-FLOOD-48X48","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/1466\/0201\/files\/Flood_AcrylicOnPanel_48x48_1_7e8ffd07-0a91-4a77-9647-76e5e1dad1d1.jpg?v=1787162797"},{"product_id":"fire","title":"Fire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFire\u003c\/strong\u003e — Reclaimed Acrylic on Panel\u003cbr\u003e48\" × 48\" | 2023 | Damon DeWitt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMade entirely from paint my students threw away — dried skins peeled off abandoned palettes, pounds of color hardened and discarded before it ever reached a canvas. Nothing new was bought for this work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere the waste is burned down to char. Black impasto crawls across the panel in blistered ridges and cratered pools, swallowing the surface from the right edge inward. Underneath, the original color survives in fragments — pinks, yellows, blues bleeding through the seams where the black has not yet closed over. What the fire has not reached is what remains of everything it consumed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the \u003cem\u003eConsumed\u003c\/em\u003e series. We take more than we need and call the remainder someone else's problem. 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Nothing new was bought for this work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe waste is thrown outward from a center that will not hold. Thousands of fragments — cadmium, violet, cobalt, bone white — spin across the panel in a debris field, while heavier sheets of blue and scarlet fold and buckle where the pressure is greatest. Open water shows through at the lower right, the only part of the surface the storm has not yet reached.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the \u003cem\u003eConsumed\u003c\/em\u003e series. 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