Creations by Camco

Cameron Colan (b. 1993, Dallas, Texas) is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Working across painting, poetry, and photography, his practice explores the intersection of lived experience and the ways it is mediated, reconstructed, and reinterpreted. Rooted in presence, curiosity, and a reverence for the natural world, Colan’s work investigates how cycles (both internal and environmental) can offer insight, grounding, and connection.

His recent body of work, including his debut poetry collection Sense of Season, reflects a deepening focus on stillness, attentiveness, and the subtle rhythms of becoming. Threaded with wonder and quiet reverence, the collection offers intimate conversations with the natural world and explores how our emotional landscapes mirror its changing forms. This meditative attention now carries across his visual work as well, where photographs often become source material for paintings that serve as visual echoes of the same themes.

Influenced by figures like Julie Mehretu, Brian Eno, Patti Smith, and Marcel Duchamp, Colan fuses poetic sensibility with conceptual rigor. His background in consumer psychology and media informs a sensitivity to how symbols, stories, and aesthetics shape human experience. Without formal training, he developed his language of making through deep observation, intuitive experimentation, and an enduring belief in the creative process as a form of inquiry. His work resists fixed narratives, instead opening space for reflection, participation, and co-creation.

Each medium in his practice serves a distinct but complementary role: painting is a gesture-led excavation of thought and feeling; poetry processes the invisible rhythms of emotional life; and photography captures the fleeting, framing wonder in the everyday. Together, these forms become a dialogue between perception and materiality; between what is seen, sensed, and remembered.

Recurring motifs act as anchors in this inquiry. Chairs symbolize perspective-taking, a grounded invitation to pause and consider another’s view. Windows function as thresholds between inner and outer worlds. Balloons, fragile and breath-filled, embody impermanence, play, and the unseen forces that lift and tether us. Whether visual, written, or performed, Colan’s work honors the cyclical and interconnected nature of life, encouraging us to stay open, stay curious, and remain in relationship with what surrounds and stirs us.