Now I think of the pool hall as a place for my friends and I to hangout, play a game and have a cheap pitcher of beer. I think having space in general represented wealth and having space for a pool table represented it even more. I didn’t understand at the time, but to my dad that represented a sign of wealth-that you had made it. Some of my other cousins at the time had purchased a house and they had a pool in the backyard and a pool table in the basement. We barely had space for anything with my entire family living in one bedroom and my cousin living in the second and my uncle in the third. At this point in time my family and I lived in an apartment. We never had a full-sized one, but I remember having a small kid-version. I remember as a kid my dad always wanted a pool table. The title and idea of this painting comes from thinking about that as a perspective of life and how every choice we make depends on the outcome that we want and if we don’t completely understand that math or concept then we can’t expect to know the outcome. If you shoot a ball at 30 degrees, it will bounce back at 30 degrees. The painting that I have recently been working on revolves around the idea of the “angle of reflection.” In the game of pool, the angle of reflection refers to what the ball will do mathematically when shot at a certain angle. Motel is pleased to announce Slipstream, an exhibition of new paintings by Jorge Guillen and Reid Ramirez, opening Saturday, November 16 and on view through December 15, 2019.
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