"Seth’s layered compositions seem to ebb towards something darker than the sea, shifting and flexing with figurative familiarities hauntingly appearing through their abstract veils and upon thought after viewing such things, one might ponder that the chaos which surrounds us is not unlike the beauty in Scantlen’s paintings."
- Zach Tutor
My work aims to use painting and drawing as a medium expressive of the fluidity of identity. Representation and abstraction flow together, seamlessly intermingling, in a state of constant flux. I intend to explore both the terror and joy that comes with identity's meltdown. The images hover between hallucination and careful formal abstraction. I try to achieve technical rigor while engaged in a visualization of intense subjective breakdown; maintaining a constant tension between control and ch
