Too bad you didn't end up with a more practical ladder Painting

This series started in a small leather bound ledger dated 1863. Most of the book is blank but for the first few pages which are an accounting record of a tailor’s business. The handwriting is lavish, done in brown ink and pencil. I started using it as a sketchbook, doing quick ladder sketches to nail the perspective. About half way through the series I quit working out the ideas in the ledger because I realized that I wanted the full scale paintings to capture the multitude of lines that result from hammering out the point of view. The brown ink is made of ground walnut shells and I adore it for the way it maneuvers on the paper. Titles, always an important component of my work, show up as labels glued to the finished painting in a format reminiscent of eighteenth century scientific labeling. The ladders illustrate offhand, sometimes seemingly humorous remarks that couch a mordant assessment of the situation. Sometimes the ladders are solitary, at other times they congregate to form structures; some are straight, while others wend into railroads and rollercoasters. Horizon lines and exaggerated vanishing points document the sense of looking down from a great height and off into the distance.

Painting:Ink on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:9.8 W x 13.8 H x 0 D in

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