“Subversion” started as a study for a much larger narrative painting. Christopher Remmers was exploring how to render a very specific effect of “disintegration” of form on a technical level. At some point, the painting took an unexpected direction. The artist found himself navigating the mechanism between the conscious and unconscious and the often-times contradictory relationship of each. There was a recognition of the undermining agenda between these parts of ourselves and the necessity to override specific conditioning in our aims for a higher goal. These conflicts become manifest in many ways, but nothing is more archetypical than the battle between light and dark.
