Waves and Waves of Maps

As a medium, paint eventually wasn’t doing the trick, which is an odd and probably unexpected development when you’re a painter. One day, paint did everything Matt Cusick wanted and the next…it didn’t. This would be like finding out your primary language stopped being able to communicate your fundamental thoughts and ideas.

“I was working on a series of natural disaster paintings,” said Cusick, who is based in New York. “I started thinking about tsunamis and how to depict them, and everything [in my kit] was paint. A wave is this enormous huge force that can be threatening but beautiful at the same time. It’s packed with movement. But when you freeze it and you take a picture of the wave, it doesn’t do it justice. I wanted to have the wave embody something else, which was reordering the world, like everything was swept up in a big whirlwind or whirlpool.”

Blue Rain Paint didn’t capture the energy he was hoping to convey,