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It’s moments that I leave in there, when you get to see all the way through to the underpainting. It’s a composition within a composition.

 
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"Design is often regarded as a panacea, promising better living and even better thinking, but Parra’s paintings expose this as a dream."

—Charmaine Koh, Shotgun Review
"Erik Parra: History by Choice at Eleanor Harwood Gallery"
May 8, 2018

In my process everything is fluid, like a river that changes course. As the painting solidifies, some parts of the river get encased in concrete. Decisions are based on the memory of a source yet in response to other, previous marks. A veritable negotiation, like some sort of international treaty.