rectifying the illusion of a painting

... 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)