Contemporary Abstract Paintings:
Lingering Traces, Mapping What Remains
Abstract Canvas Art Series · 2025
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Abstract paintings exploring memory, residual marks, and emotional traces
across layered surfaces.
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Mixed media canvas works in which gestures accumulate, fade, and reappear over time.
Abstract paintings
on canvas
Fragmentation, Memory & Spatial Tension
Philippe Halaburda — 2025 — New York
In 2025, seven series on canvas push psychogeographical mapping into new emotional and structural territory.
Each series begins from a different pressure point: fragmentation, memory, coordination, polarity, instability, trace, and builds outward through layered acrylic, tape, yarn, LEGO bricks, and found objects.
The works share a common posture: holding opposing forces in the same space without resolving them. Structure under pressure. Tension held, not released.
All works are mixed media on square canvas. Available to collectors, galleries, and institutions.
Unmapping the Taancriid
Acrylic, color tape, yarn, wood block on stretched canvas 101 x 101 cm - 40"x 40", USA, 2025
Available
No signal in Haaam
Acrylic, color tape, yarn, wood block on stretched canvas 101 x 101 cm - 40"x 40", USA, 2025
Available
Tammenagg cluster
Acrylic, color tape, yarn, wood block on stretched canvas 101 x 101 cm - 40"x 40", USA, 2025
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Lingering Traces is a series of contemporary abstract paintings on canvas built around
what remains after movement, emotion, and interaction.
Nothing fully disappears. Marks persist, shift, and re-emerge in altered forms.
The surface becomes a record of decisions, interruptions, and returns.
Dabbiucaoo
Acrylic, color tape, yarn, wood block on stretched canvas 101 x 101 cm - 40"x 40", USA, 2025
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An Arppphea sector
Acrylic, color tape, yarn, wood block on stretched canvas 101 x 101 cm - 40"x 40", USA, 2025
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Fryynss roots
Acrylic, color tape, yarn, wood block on stretched canvas 101 x 101 cm - 40"x 40", USA, 2025
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“Each mark is a coordinate, what remains becomes the map.”
About the Theme of Lingering Traces
Lingering Traces is a series where I investigate the residue of experience, the marks that time, emotion, and interaction leave behind even after the moment has passed.
Each work is built through layering, erasure,
and reactivation.
Lines, textures, and color fields accumulate over time, forming compositions that hold both presence
and absence simultaneously.
Rather than fixed structures, these paintings reveal residual systems, in which past gestures influence what comes next, and earlier decisions remain embedded
in the surface, even when buried beneath new layers.
The canvas becomes a palimpsest: a surface written over, again and again, but never entirely erased.
What the viewer encounters is not a finished image
but a record of everything the painting has been through to arrive at what it is now.