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Clouds Over The Rockies Print
United States
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10 x 10 in ($41)
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White ($80)
About The Artwork
I begin with research, excavating and cataloguing, browsing and drawing. Once I’ve found a topic that wriggles under the lens, I focus my attention--conscious and unconscious--on the life within it, trying through more drawing and speculation to illuminate what that life is, what it feels like, what its light is like. When I’m clear, I establish a ground for painting by building a texture-drawing in fiber paste, modeling paste and gesso. I work intuitively, staying alert to sparks of life as I build and tear down, until there’s enough going on to stop. I tend to work on 4-8 pieces at a time in this way. Once the ground is dry, I begin to experiment with decisions about forms through an underpainting. Again working on 4-8 panels at a time, I begin to see forms in the textures I drew, and work to bring them out. Some panels may need multiple revisions of this stage, as a vision postulated in one sitting evades capture in the next. During this process, elements from my research inform my vision, sometimes as directives, and sometimes as stumbling blocks. Eventually a painting’s basic image and composition are established; I turn to it then with color, continuing the process of building a living form through play with the textured ground and its underpainting. I learn a great deal about the image, its life, and about painting by being open to finding beauty as I work. Scumbling, wiping, sgraffito, cutting, etching-like textures, bravura highlights--there are so many ways that form and beauty are made that I prefer to let my bones, gut and heart drive me to it, rather than my cognitive mind. I’ve learned to stop work on a piece after just a few bad notes. If I’ve put my foot in it somewhere, I tend to take stock and try again; but if the foolishness persists, I’ll just shift to another panel, often at a different place in the process, to shift my insides back into alignment with the unfolding process.
Details & Dimensions
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:10 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:15.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Ships From:Printing facility in California.
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I make art that connects. Art that connects us to place. To shared heritage. To our bodies, to our present moment, and to our practices of contemplation and community. My work is centered in creative practice--an extension of contemplative practice. I draw inspiration from a big well: from the land, from relationships in community, and from the increasingly connected international world of post-minimalist, process-oriented painting. I think of myself as a kind of activist--a soul worker, let’s say. Vision is my job. As artists, it’s our job to gestate new vision, birth it, and nurture it, introducing it to our communities and letting it change into the needful thing, over and over again. I take this on because I believe we need new vision--that we always do, in fact. I take this on as the best thing I am fitted to, the most frighteningly wonderful thing I can imagine, the best use of my impermanent life. We’re remodelling our understanding of our relationships to ourselves, to our communities, to our global culture, and to the earth itself. We’re retrofitting our culture, because retrofitting is the least violent, the least wasteful, and the most living way to approach the redesign of the human structures we live within. I'm a New Englander living in New Mexico. Grew up stretched between Boston Brahmins and the New Hampshire woods. Studies in philosophy and psychology, especially yoga and meditation, from late adolescence. Studied, choreographed and performed Butoh, contact improvisation, and other forms of postmodern dance. Embodiment and presence form the cornerstones of my creative practice.
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