Painters plastic with imprints of cinder block walls... attached to metal wall studs... environment created in which two people will continuously "paint" the walls white... "are we painting to live .... or living to paint"
Collaboration with Bridget Marie
Detritus painted and consumed by vivacious concentric circles (targets)...
The idea of something positive taking over a negative environment and ultimately consumming it...
Something beautiful and exciting taking over base, abject objects.... and emerging out from the place it has been designated/ assigned to...
Fiber paper exposed to negatives... painted with brushes and pallet knives in the darkroom with developer so as to only expose portions of the image, yet the gradation in color is caused by the manipulation of developer... the darker the value the longer the chemical was on the paper ... and vice versa
cut into quadrilaterals... sewn with monofilament (spider wire/ fishing line).. and stretched over stretcher bars...
images and language has been deconstructed... and reconstituted to become something new ...
coinciding with earlier questions... Is this a painting or a photograph? There is a use of photographi process... but it had been handled in a painterly way ... and unlike the easy accessibility of multiple copies in printing photography the images that resulted in painting can not be reproduced.... The product becomes more of an object than just an image...
It also speaks about the power your mind harvests... if you believe something is real than it is your reality ... but that thing that has become so real to you is not real for other people... so it begins to questions what constitutes what is and isnt real... how one constructs a reality with illusory ideas/things.... as with relationships, religion, existence...etc.
... because that is what you do... you hang a painting up...
...when you paint you create the illusion of depth and volume through the 2-d manipulation of light and shadow... here... there is no illusion... light, shadow, space, and volume is REAL...
Forms (acrylic paint and canvas) arranged where darker values recede in space and lighter more to the foreground...
Here, I am thinking about what constitutes a painting and what makes a paining... borrowing from the elements of conventional painting... i am trying to make it a painting as per conventions .. but still execute the piece so that people may question its existence...
Well is it an installtion...? perhaps... but it is hung... and it uses predominately paint ...which is on strips of canvas... there is an implied rectilinear space that is created by all the pieces which becomes mimetic of your standard canvas...
Transparency Sheets and Acrylic Paint (the process)
Projection can be viewed here
every aspect in this piece becomes extremely important and sybolic...
a certain tension has been created by the juxtaposition of the rigid mangled metal against the light delicate decaying sutures leaves and paper towels....
the idea was loosely based ultimately around creating a tool to reach the unobtainable... which would be my father's support...
where the metal becomes the part supporting the decaying sheet of leaves sewn to paper towels ... The form was created in reminiscent of a child's fort... which creates a space for only one person... surrounded by the truth of the relationship... decaying leaves attached to a reduced version of its former support (a tree trunk - the derivative of paper towels) ... it is an artificial support... that has been reduced to the same thin vulnerable quality of the leaves...
Decaying leaves ( preserved with polycrylic) sutured to paper towels with blue sewing thread
