"There is an earnest hunger in Witt's latest body of work. A hunger for guidance, for belonging, for clarity and healing. Access to immaterial realms offered by posters and billboards highlight the ubiquity of ancient questions, commercialized in tchotchke form. Signage, symbols and talismans overlap and reinforce their common message by illustrating the persistence of invitations to step toward unchartered waters."
"Like the snake that eats its tail, Witt employs the circle as a cyclical emblem, perpetually moving through beginnings and endings. The circle is contained and endless, centripetal and holistic, composed of continuous points to make a whole. Geometry carries sacred and utilitarian weight in Witt's lexicon. The paintings in the exhibition function as portraiture, depicting states of mind both singular and collective."
Kayla Witt's new paintings explore mysticism, archetype, and everyday objects through recurring circular motifs. Geometry and symbols function as both sacred emblems and utilitarian signs that compress vast existential questions into familiar forms. Commercialized objects and signage suggest ubiquitous, commodified access to immaterial realms and collective invitations toward unknown territory. The works operate as portraits of interior states, using surrogate objects and miniaturized scenes to render existential longing comprehensible. Imagery such as skeletons reaching for cosmic orbs, wallpaper motifs, and talismans translates yearning for guidance, belonging, clarity, and healing into tangible visual language.
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