East to West (Unknown Destination)

96.5 x 67.5” ‡‡ Paint / Rust / Aluminum / Steel / Neodymium Magnets

Two trucks depart from opposite coasts, each chasing a dream across the country, each lost along the way. But were they truly lost? Or did they end up where they were always meant to be? Such is the story of Paul T. Curran’s “East to West (Unknown Destination).” The artist offers clues to the questions posed by the piece: while the doors may not have made it all the way to the lush forest or striking desert imagined in their windows, the patina they wear — one moisture-stained into dappled shadow, the other sun-cured to resemble rocky terrain and towering sky — show a sustained connection of a deeper kind, finding what they sought (and finding themselves in the process) even if it wasn’t in the way they’d imagined. In this vignette, Curran sees threads of his own life as an artist, holding onto the sometimes-hidden truth that change is something to be celebrated.