Stephen's profile
Spartana creates abstractions or surreal landscapes, where his subjects appear and then fade through spatial dimensions. The viewer is guided on a visual journey through the familiar into unfamiliar environments, layered like scrims of fabric, seamlessly transitioning between organic and inorganic elements. Similar to a dream, the work’s shifting perspectives represented by fluid environmental elements, suggests life’s shifting realities and constant change. His current research utilizes a number of images which function in the same way that painters use brushes and paint, his tools being a combination of various analog films mixed with digital and paint media. Spartana’s complex layered compositions blend details of shape, shadow/light and color coaxing the viewer to look deeper into his multi-dimensional dreamscapes.