Monday, May 18, 2009

Simultaneity or maybe votivegraphy

These are a sampling of some of my latest work. These three are from today even. For about the last month I have been working with the ideas of simultaneity. Maps simultaneously show many layers of information. The series of images I am working in are text or font based and words or phrases have been overlapped and layered. Another layer of these images is that they have been composed in a improvisational way. After the word(s) or phrase has been written/composed, a final layer to these images is how they are colored in. During this coloring in, also very improvisational and intuitive, certain "events" jump out at me from the "field". I will "move" with what is "moving." The simultaneous quality is that all these layers: the word(s), phrases, and composing merge together and are seen as a whole. The word(s) and phrases are often associated with and/are prayers or votives. In this sense, these images are visual prayers or visual meditations. These are from my sketch book and are done in pen and ink but some of these will turn into larger finished paintings. The titles of these three are: "confess," "casting anxieties," and "holy, holy, holy." Can you figure out which is which?

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