Artist's Statement overdue. Desire to say something profound, to finish the paintings and then see what thread holds them together, stalls me. Experience has taught me to slow way down, clean the palette, sweep the floor when I feel the urge to rush. “Meanders” is the name I've given the work. Related to the course of a waterway in specific, it also betrays my own way of getting things done.
Perhaps there will be twenty one paintings, or maybe one less, if Cristin at the New Orleans gallery sends one off to Santa Barbara. I've been photographing the paintings as a way of getting perspective on surfaces I've been staring at too long. Doing this, I see awkward passages, places where more focus or contrast would be good. I dread seeing Mickey Mouse in a cloud–this also prevents that.
Sometimes I know exactly what I'm after, but other times I do truly meander.
Perhaps there will be twenty one paintings, or maybe one less, if Cristin at the New Orleans gallery sends one off to Santa Barbara. I've been photographing the paintings as a way of getting perspective on surfaces I've been staring at too long. Doing this, I see awkward passages, places where more focus or contrast would be good. I dread seeing Mickey Mouse in a cloud–this also prevents that.
Sometimes I know exactly what I'm after, but other times I do truly meander.
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