ARTIST STATEMENT
A blank canvas
Respond
The weave of cloth, the stark texture of gesso
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Flat patterning
The first hue
in viscous solutions floating on white
the temperature of color
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Next tint, a broad swipe, strong marks creating spatial constellations
Raw sienna with condensing medium
Risk
Erratic strokes bring impressions
Hand oscillating to make undulating shapes
Visual motion
Tides of umber begin to form, dispassionately into landscape
Respond to wrestling light, raw illusionist shades, a rhythm of emotional tone
Conflict
Sky blue advances like white
out
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Erase, adjust, changing and replying to new additions
choosing smaller less dramatic actions
Movements of body
Coy, as a lover
Placing brush to canvas
using the peripheral point, to begin again
Silence
paint drying, becoming fixed, final
the strokes marked out by my hand complete
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