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Tiberiy Szilvashi’s painting is made with layers of oil paint on canvas. The deep blue paint is intensely worked, with a roughened surface that catches the light. The painting's surface is built up with tangible layers of color, and a heavy impasto of material, that create a sense of depth. The texture of the paint hints at the labor that went into creating the artwork, a testament to the physicality of the artistic process. Szilvashi seems to have used brushes and palette knives, coaxing the viscous oil paint into peaks and valleys. The edges show how the pigment has gathered and broken, emphasizing the materiality of the paint itself. Thinking about the materials and making of an artwork helps us understand that artistic skill is also the result of material transformation, and the labor involved in its production. It blurs traditional lines between art and craft.