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Does this image look familiar?
(Dream Catcher. Charcoal on painted masonite 18" x 40" 2008)
I arrived here with four panels painted and ready to go for specific works. This is the first, completed in record-time-four days. Right away, there are two things that appeal to me about it: the elaborately prepared background (which took considerably more than four days) is really active. It's as if the air itself is in motion, which is of course what I was trying to do. Second, it has a looseness, which my tree drawings sometimes lack. The trees are treated in a way that is no less, shall we say, thorough than usual. However, by using a longer tool and by forcing myself to work quickly the marks have a loose but decisive quality that appeals.
Dream Catcher detail. Click for better view.
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One more quick thing:
I'll be having a show this October in Fort Green (Brooklyn), thanks to the unstoppable Anders Knuttson.
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