the way string falls

lines

scratching an itch

stray alchemist

Testing testing 123

If an artist is invested in what he/she does there is little possibility of disassociating the maker from the work.

When work is specifically about the artist or

if the work is dependent on what the artist-figure is occupied with,

then the maker can have no real distance from the work.

The artist and the work are unified as a hermetic structure, isolated from outside influence.
critical theory ruptures artistic practice

even as its aphoristic obscurity is lampooned

by the way string falls
wondering if its just another paranoid inscription onto full forms of evident energy,

still mysterious and essentially arbitrary

like the way string draws

embracing uncertainty

Striving for a kind of openness while accepting a certain level of mystery,

the understanding that you cannot know everything.

Getting to know ones world becomes less about living in it

and more about sifting through its amusing fragments.

Without indulging in nostalgia for what is gone

one suggestion might be that the means of seeing and showing supplants what is to be seen

potential assumptions dictated by process

Remnants of what seems to be destroyed

or the remnants of one act manifesting into a wholly new form,

there is a fluidity that becomes truncated and frozen
These two are on drop cloths I admired while painting backgrounds.

In a way it was sort-of like painting blind,

or printmaking, pressing and bleeding through unprimed cloth.
again, I find ,what I see as, beauty in what lies on the floor protecting a surface.

The catch of random mark-making ,

the unintentional composition brought to intention,

the ragged edge of the cloth

The one above also includes dried latex paint. This I discovered while cleaning out old buckets of paint to use for fresh.

I like the incredibly opaque and flatness it provides in juxtaposition of the silver and gold...

SURFACE SPEAKING TO WHAT I DON"T KNOW
Here are the pieces I was working on exploring methods of gilding with leaf metals, gold, silver and aluminum.

My favorite is the silver but it proves to also be the most expensive .

Tim did a nice job photographing them. thanks tim