Forgotten Answers
This body of work invites a complex sense of reality through both perspective and the traces of representation. Yet, as the paintings develop, they unsettle this realism where thick, wet-on-wet impastos, sticky and viscous, break through, leaving no room for fixed interpretation.
The everyday and the familiar are reduced to their simplest forms, often becoming distorted or easily misconstrued. As the image unfolds, we are left with echoes of the real world, some objects seem vaguely familiar, while others remain elusive, just out of reach.
Cahn delves into the memory banks of his own experience, attempting to give tangible form to the intangible, transforming what is ephemeral and private into something real and communicable.