Statement
"What ever happened to painting beautiful pictures?" Rule 1: Avoid sensation, gimmicks, intentional controversy, the evening news.
Emphasis on a Be-bop spontaneity, improvisation. Go into the studio blank, without any idea what you will paint. Then paint. Believe in your materials.
Process. Sequence 1: Build up a surface. Everything/everyday/everywhere materials - newspaper, phone books, fabric, literature, maps, a tin can lid. "It’s all in there."
Source. A fascination with decay. Man-made succumbs to nature. Sequence 2: When you fall in love with your creation, destroy it, tear it apart - "lacéré".
Voyage. Sequence 3: Keep at it. The attack. Order collapses, representation dissolves. (Visual feedback.)
Repeat as necessary.
A soft collision. Arrive at the perfect balance of construction and destruction, where banality becomes beauty.
End.
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