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In the studio, some paintings begin with a subject or an idea, while others just start. The process is fluid and in constant flux. Some days studio work flows with quiet attention, on others it resists, demanding extra patience, observation, and care.
For the duration of the painting process, I give each painting a working title as a means of identification. For this series, that naming was shaped by my engagement with the Lost Library of Alexandria, understood not as a single historical moment but as a site of accumulation, disappearance, and irretrievable knowledge. The reference remained present as the work developed but didn’t fully align with what was emerging on the surface. Rather than replacing it with a more definitive title, I thought quite deeply about the act of re-titling something even when the use of a working title left it understood that a new title might be applied to a finished work so this series became De-Titled, to acknowledge both the necessity of naming during the process and the deliberate act of releasing that name without substitution, leaving the work in a state of careful openness.
Linda Sgoluppi Art