{"product_id":"to-burn-is-not-to-vanish-37320","title":"To burn is not to vanish","description":"\u003cp\u003eIan Stone's meticulously rendered still life and figurative paintings explore queer memory and camp through carefully arranged collections of ornamental and personal objects, with the body positioned as a site through which identity is formed, expressed, and remembered. Informed by traditions of 19th-century Realism and Western art history, his oil paintings and drawings are rich in detail and cultural awareness, reflecting how femininity, longing, and performance shape contemporary queer life. Paintings are unframed, while works on paper are framed under glass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist's description:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFire burns on the table. Smoke rises, dense and unresolved. What is altered does not disappear—it changes form and persists. Burning has long been used as a language of erasure. Here it fails. Ash remains. Heat lingers. The air carries what cannot be undone. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe table grounds the scene, refusing transcendence. What burns does so within the ordinary, within the spaces where history occurred. The transformation is real, but it is not annihilation. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis fire does not belong entirely to the past. It speaks to a future in which destruction is not an accident, but a condition—produced, repeated, and reimagined. What endures must now learn to survive what has not yet finished burning.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e- Ian Stone, 2025\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e_____\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn in Montreal (1982), Stone studied printmaking at NSCAD University before completing an MFA in painting and drawing at Concordia University. His early training in printmaking continues to inform his approach to image construction, visible in the layered, deliberate process through which his compositions are staged, photographed, and translated into painting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStone has exhibited across Canada and internationally. His work is held in public and private collections, including the Florida State University Museum and the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria. Stone continues to develop a practice that bridges historical painting techniques with contemporary narratives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ian Stone","offers":[{"title":"16 X 12 in.","offer_id":47176790081794,"sku":"37320","price":1950.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0919\/5944\/files\/Stone-Toburnisnottovanish-oiloncanvas-16x12in-2025-HiRes.jpg?v=1767126843","url":"https:\/\/bau-xi.com\/en-us\/products\/to-burn-is-not-to-vanish-37320","provider":"Bau-Xi Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}