The focus of my recent work is painting from poetry, prose, and stock quotes, using existing texts of Homer, Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman, and the Wall St. Journal. I continue to be interested in the form and feel of language, the shape, line, color, and layering of letters and numbers. The words are not readable but they form the basis for
the paintings. Before this I created my own words using the technique of Automatic Writing.
Sometimes I feel like a scribe, chronicling the myriad messages that travel through space in the form of books, newspapers, talk, text messaging, Facebook, advertising, and T.V., a dense thicket of information.
The flag series came about because my diptychs and triptychs seemed to coalesce out of the confusion and stand for something, even if only for states of feeling and circumstance.The flags signify ownership and territory of those states of feeling and mind.I have also painted some 'signal flags' which carry a loosely interpreted signal from actual flags and their poignant meanings.
the paintings. Before this I created my own words using the technique of Automatic Writing.
Sometimes I feel like a scribe, chronicling the myriad messages that travel through space in the form of books, newspapers, talk, text messaging, Facebook, advertising, and T.V., a dense thicket of information.
The flag series came about because my diptychs and triptychs seemed to coalesce out of the confusion and stand for something, even if only for states of feeling and circumstance.The flags signify ownership and territory of those states of feeling and mind.I have also painted some 'signal flags' which carry a loosely interpreted signal from actual flags and their poignant meanings.
