PAINTING INVESTIGATION

BACKDROPS

2004 - 2006

 
 

This  free-style series was motivated by my general interest in painting  not as the illusion of space, but as an event that takes place over a surface. To start with a color field and explore saturation through glazing. That alone as an event, a relationship and an entryway to relating to life via materials, liquids, tools and colors is a valid reminder of the spiritual realm.  Then, those images suggest figurative arrangements, that I elaborate from my imagination. I focus on juxtaposing different actions, so that I can explore velocity in the act of mark-making. I want to know there are slow-acting effects under fast paced disruptions, for example.

Using a brush, I paint found-images and study drawings that I have made or gathered daily, and that are scattered around me during specific periods of time. That is relevant for me, to consider images that intercept my reality within the parameters of a specific period and the things that happen around them. Are these in consequence or is it the opposite?. These works, I feel present surface as a continuum that is reflective of emotional circumstance, where I get to resist sameness and branding. I am motivated by the quest of  what resonates over text, like the signatures on the wall of the city do. Whether quickly or slowly fashioned painted things are crafted matter that subvert the machine-made, permanent structures that would otherwise reflect no trace of human scale.