2D Statement

Recent two-dimensional works include smaller collages made from laminated book pages that are glued to a plywood ground. The layers of this text-matrix are distressed until the surface is unreadable. Other materials like paint and tape are introduced as compositional ploys or to obscure the original narrative. The series evolved into a diptych format that combines altered-text panels with painted panels.The formal composition is, perhaps, suggestive of book layout (recto/verso) and/or dualities present in life conscious/unconscious, active/passive, and life/death.

This two-panel strategy is continued in a new series of larger paintings inspired by my previous text based works. These diptychs refer to, but do not reside on, actual book pages. The additive and subtractive process of building up and then carving through acrylic house paint on plywood panels, layer by layer, is a reductive or deconstructive theme that runs through most of my work.