36.250729, -106.046784 (Sold) Painting

This image is of a patch of ground in a home-made trash dump in Northern New Mexico. From the Series "Trash Paintings" I take a photo of the ground looking straight down. The photo is color separated, burned onto silkscreens, then screen printed by hand with multiple layers of acrylic and metallic paint. This process reconstitutes a kind of abstracted ghost of the image. Occasionally small editions can be made but generally each painting is unique. Trash Paintings document various “outcroppings” of discarded man-made things lying on the ground, scenes that can be found almost anywhere on earth, but most often get overlooked, ignored or edited out of the landscape.. The painting is titled with the exact geo-coordinates where the original photo was made and is searchable on any mapping software to surprising accuracy.