Well Well
Advanced Carpentry 56″ x 46″
Oil on Canvas 2008
It has been a while since I have posted. It’s not that I don’t have new work. Just trying some new things and haven’t wanted to put more images up. This one is from last month, every time I think I’m going to try and make the spaces in the paintings more complex, they defy me by not working. Eventually it gets pared down to something more basic. The paint seems to be winning out over my determination on deciding what stays and what goes. I guess I’ve always been perplexed by situations and styles that are overdetermined, all the while admiring them and wishing I could map out the steps and process and follow the instructions. My work likes to taunt me with that ever present spontaneity that I sneer at in myself.