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Matt Cotten: The Human Condition

Matt Cotten is a painter, puppeteer, and performer based in Tucson who explores memory, time, and entropy in his artwork.
by Özlem Özgür

Matt Cotten is a painter, puppeteer, and performer based in Tucson. He explores memory, time, and entropy in his artwork. He uses abstraction to reveal decay and disorder in urban spaces. Places disintegrate and stories dissolve into traces of color and layers of light in his paintings. He uses expressionistic figures to visualize the flow of time and its organic effects on us. His paintings suggest that each of us is but a tiny facet in an expansive natural world.

Producer: Özlem Ayşe Özgür Videographers: Robert Lindberg, Danny Sax, Özlem Ayşe Özgür, Diana Cadena Editor: Robert Lindberg

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