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Ryan Hoffmann 2021

 Ryan Hoffmann

Notes on Falling

11 November - 4 December, 2021

RYAN HOFFMANN
The flowers drink the water
. 2021
oil, linen and three-dimensional steam bent shaped canvas
170 x 100 x 8cm

RYAN HOFFMANN
A beautiful woman waits with me at the lights, together and separate. She lights a cigarette, exhales, I breathe a cloud of smoke. I think of her breath in my lungs - Prenzlauerburg, Berlin, 2021
oil, linen and three dimensional steam bent canvases
210 x 92 x 14 cm

RYAN HOFFMANN
Eat, because you will be eaten. 2021
oil, linen and three-dimensional steam bent shaped canvases
174 x 85 x 10 cm

RYAN HOFFMANN
You end up chasing the thing that chases you, 2021
oil, linen and three-dimensional steam bent shaped canvas
205 x 67x 10 cm

RYAN HOFFMANN
After a while I could see what you saw, 2020
oil, linen and three-dimensional steam bent shaped canvas
200 x 55 x 10 cm

RYAN HOFFMANN
I hear my mind say, I'm doing fine, my life is a walk through the pines, 2021
oil, linen and three-dimensional steam bent shaped canvas
208 x 40 x 12 cm

RYAN HOFFMANN
I’m sorry, my vision was partially obscured, 2021
oil, linen and three dimensional steam bent canvases
200 x 118 x 10 cm

RYAN HOFFMANN
I needed to let all of these imprints fall from me. I think I was laying at the foot of my bed. My imprint in the covers. Thinking of the ones that shape me, 2020
oil, linen and three-dimensional steam bent shaped canvas
185 x 70 x 8 cm

RYAN HOFFMANN
Everything is so strenuous, so exhausting on the heart and the soul...then I stick my head out the window like a dog, life seems so simple here, 2021
oil, linen and three dimensional steam bent canvases
65 x 68 x 10 cm

RYAN HOFFMANN
People either walk in a straight line or drift when they walk. The leaves under our feet get picked up into a whirlwind, it dances in the same direction as us, 2021
oil, linen and three-dimensional steam bent shaped canvases
144 x 40 x 9 cm

RYAN HOFFMANN
Exactly what I wanted to find was already mine,
2021
oil, linen and three-dimensional steam bent shaped canvas
218 x 57 x 8 cm

RYAN HOFFMANN
When I was a boy, I had dreams where I could fly with my arms spread out. When I was in Greece my dreams were of snakes.
2021
oil, linen and three-dimensional steam bent shaped canvas
100 x 60 x 5cm

RYAN HOFFMANN
The green in your eyes, reflects the green in me.
2021
oil, linen and three-dimensional steam bent shaped canvas
150 x 84 x 8cm

RYAN HOFFMANN
If you quit now it's going to haunt you the rest of your life.
 2021
oil, linen and three-dimensional steam bent shaped canvas
85 x 45 x 9cm

RYAN HOFFMANN
Beginnings always hide themselves in endings, 2021
oil, linen and three-dimensional steam bent shaped canvas
157 x 34 x 8 cm

RYAN HOFFMANN
I can hear the forest breathe the wind rushing through the trees up the valley, minutes before the wind hits us, 2021
oil, linen and three-dimensional steam bent shaped canvas
194 x 48 x 12 cm

RYAN HOFFMANN
That might be the way you live your life, but it almost got me killed. (Live moderately paced, die moderately old).
2021
oil, linen and three-dimensional steam bent shaped canvas
100 x 90 x 10cm

RYAN HOFFMANN
The weather is crisp, the light is cool and bright. I stop to smell the neighbours rose garden - Hope street
. 2021
oil, linen and three-dimensional steam bent shaped canvas
103 x 24 x 6cm

RYAN HOFFMANN
Cool rain, kiss me.
 2021
oil, linen and three-dimensional steam bent shaped canvas
68 x 36 x 5 cm

RYAN HOFFMANN
I am riding my motorcycle out of the city....
2021
oil, linen and three-dimensional steam bent shaped canvas
150 x 110 x 3.5cm

RYAN HOFFMANN
I know I made so many mistakes, most of the time I refused to change.
2021
oil, linen and three-dimensional steam bent shaped canvas
150 x 110 x 3.5cm

RYAN HOFFMANN
No matter how dark the storm gets overhead, they say someone is watching from the calm at the edge.
2021
oil, linen and three-dimensional steam bent shaped canvas
150 x 110 x 3.5cm

RYAN HOFFMANN
The water falling over the cliff, the liquid atomised. A fine mist clouds the base. This mist forms small waterfalls on my glasses. The waterfall continues.
2021
oil, linen and three-dimensional steam bent shaped canvas
150 x 110 x 3.5cm

RYAN HOFFMANN
I keep hearing people say, it's funny how time slips away.
2021
oil, linen and three-dimensional steam bent shaped canvas
150 x 110 x 3.5cm