Shawn Webber's paintings depict indeterminate zones where disparate objects and characters meet and linger. The faithfully rendered images laid upon murky grounds are indifferent to each other and their surroundings. Unmoored from the coordinates of time and space, Webber offers a surreal dimension no longer determined by the logic of events, in order to extract latent meanings from his combinations. Hot air balloons, airplanes, helicopters and dilapidated ships often float on the hazy surfaces, alluding to physical and mental travel. Mobility is also referenced when birds and sea creatures appear reminding the viewer of the fantasies of flight and underwater exploration. Many of the creatures that inhabit Webber's world exist only as skeletons, suggesting support and internal structures as well as the age-old theme of life and death. Often armed Buddhist monks appear as meditative witnesses to the conditions on the canvas. In the works there is a spiritual and psychic energy but also a disturbing tension brought by the confluence of irreconcilable differences. The disjointed assortment of things and characters that dwell in Webber's paintings are divorced from their normal settings and thereby have nothing at stake. In this plain of reality, dualist ethics are abandoned.

-Matthew Post-