Perfect Shirt Print

This process-oriented small painting uses the ideas of time and chance to blur the line between intent and coincidence. Joint compound is slathered on a panel and manipulated, creating a sculptural, composition-based surface. Thin acrylic pigments run and absorb into the still-wet surface, doing wild, independent things that have been gamed into existence over years of experimentation with the materials. After the paint and joint compound dry, additional layers of pigment and graphite respond to that which has gone before, as many or as few times as it takes. I listened to the Portland band Fox Academy while working on this piece, the plaintive, loping, reverb-layered song Perfect Shirt seemed a good signifier. I'm offering this piece here in print form, which replicates the work much larger than it is in real life.