Eli Portman. Website: http://eliportman.weebly.com/ Instagram: @eli.portman In unprecedented times we need art of all kinds. Born and raised as a Bostonian, and someone who’s been greatly shaken by the world events of the past year, I seek solace in what inspires me. And for me, these tend to be very small things around the city. The wake of a boat in the harbor as it mutters by. The gnarled base of a tired, old tree. The scratched up and much worn post of a street lamp. The stained old bricks of a Back Bay house. Windy sheets on a stretched clothesline. People enjoying their meals in a quiet, old place under hazy neon lights. I’ve spent the last 5 years enmeshing myself within those things. Cataloging, painting, recording. I am a curator of feelings, a recorder of midday sunlight. A hearer of screeching train tracks and smeller of the greasy foods frying on lunchtime carts. Samples of Eli Portman's previous work. I think we’re all trying to figure things out. Trying to understand how things come to be, what they are, and where they’ll go from here. When I paint, when I pick up a brush or a pen, I try to think about the places I’m painting. Where they came from, who built them and why, and how long they’ll be there. In Boston, nothing stays still for very long. So with my paintings I try to savor every moment, every ray of sunlight, ever pane of tempered glass, every brick in the wall. I try to slow down, try to break down the moments that speed by. In my paintings and drawings, you’ll see small specific moments. Days that have passed and rain that has long evaporated. They all matter, and they can be so hard to remember. But we have to try. That trying can take a lifetime too. Today’s world is a constant barrage of stress, concerns, and catastrophes, many of which we’ll never see with our own eyes. Sometimes we need to meditate on what we do see. Keep our eyes open and see it on a different level. Next time you walk to the store or commute to the office, meditate on your senses. Let them guide your thoughts, and see how beautiful the world finds itself in those small moments. Eli Portman is one of Boston’s prolific artists. He graduated with a BA in Studio Art from SUNY Binghamton in 2014. Since then he’s taught art to all ages, in many classes and venues. Portman has created paintings that currently hang in offices, libraries, galleries, shops, restaurants, homes, and more. He has created many murals, of which the Tasteful Boston project is the most recent. Portman has been hired for book illustrations and sold original paintings, prints, and custom art to hundreds of people across the Northeast.
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