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John O’Connor


John O’Connor - Detail: "Echo (Day 5)" 2023, Colored pencil and graphite on paper, 89.5 x 70 inches
This is the  fth work in an ongoing series of twenty-six pieces (Butter y Series) documenting the narrative account of an individual’s passage through time as he encounters various physical, psychological, emotional, and chemical obstacles. Each sensory element that he comes in contact with—be it consumer product, surreal image, real or imagined person, space from his memory, or  ctitious composite—causes his life to unfold, one sentence at a time.

Detail: “Echo (Day 5)” 2023, Colored pencil and graphite on paper, 89.5 x 70 inches
This is the fth work in an ongoing series of twenty-six pieces (Butter y Series) documenting the narrative account of an individual’s passage through time as he encounters various physical, psychological, emotional, and chemical obstacles. Each sensory element that he comes in contact with—be it consumer product, surreal image, real or imagined person, space from his memory, or ctitious composite—causes his life to unfold, one sentence at a time.