Hollywood, Los Angeles
Mosie Romney
Every Spiral Has Its Law
Sebastian GladstoneThe spiral does not belong to an external entity. It tumbles toward the boundaries of itself and in its doing so, meets the actual matter. It claims discordance as center. Delusion as function. There is no ground and sky, no edge and core. There is no ordered study of radical alterity, of animals, of spirits. It traverses the material topsoil of language and whirls us towards an incalculable play place where all is existent. Whose histories are these anyway? Whose memories? Whose medicine? Whose degrees of aliveness? Mosie Romney sowed these paintings in a barn built in 1860 in rural upstate NY. And in the barn, the ground was reversioned and placed elsewhere. And in the barn, Mosie dizzied lies of the world but not in it. And in the barn, empire was chiefed and sovereigned by Yellow Mary, Green Nina, Red Rat. Every spiral has its law. Every unreality has a fossil. But perhaps you will only ever have seen something once. And once and once and once and once and once and once. —Funto Omojola Mosie Romney is an artist who primarily makes paintings. They occasionally work in puppetry, set design, installation, herbalism, and poetry. These methods trace fugitive paths of alterity through trinkets, animals, and ancestral presence. Drawing from both waking life and the subconscious, romney’s world is built by collecting, shuffling, and recomposing imagery from all corners of their experiences. Romney is a detached narrator, creating an evolving cast of characters to explore alternative animacy.