Abstract paintings
on canvas
Situationist art
Philippe Halaburda — 2018 — New York
In 2018, the work began shifting toward an internalized form of mapping, in which space is no longer external but is constructed through perception, memory, and emotion.
These early compositions move away from representation, establishing a visual language rooted in psychological terrain rather than physical geography. 13 series on canvas, paper, and in three dimensions.
The foundation of the psychogeographical practice that followed.
All works are mixed media on square canvas. Available to collectors, galleries, and institutions.
Artistic process
and emotional structure
The 2018 practice is built on accumulation and instability, each composition develops through layered additions rather than a predetermined plan.
Acrylic and ink establish the primary surface: tonal fields that carry emotional weight before any structural mark is placed. Tape introduces moments of order, boundaries, directional flows, and zones of containment that are then disrupted, redirected, or buried beneath subsequent layers.
The process is exploratory by design. Forms emerge, dissolve, and reconfigure across each work's surface. Nothing is fixed until the painting declares itself finished, and even then, the material decisions remain visible, reinforcing the work as a record of process rather than a resolved image.
Thirteen series in 2018 mark the first year the psychogeographical mapping practice becomes fully internalized, where the city is no longer the subject, but the method.
Statement
in 2018
2018 is the year the map turns inward. Until now, the city was the subject, its streets, its networks, its surfaces and systems. In 2018, the territory shifts.
The compositions stop depicting external space and begin registering internal states: the topology of perception, the geography of memory, the unstable terrain of thought in motion.
Thirteen series. Thirteen entry points into the same question: what does the inside of a mind look like when you try to draw it? No fixed orientation. No resolved form. Only the trace of movement through a landscape that keeps reshaping itself as you move through it.
This work made everything that followed possible.