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surface work ratios 2021-23
The subject of my work is the process of making it. With limitation, restriction and repetition, an exact set of materials and a constrained mark-making action, I have deliberately controlled its painfully slow development and direction. It is a twenty-three-year investigation.
surface work ratios. 2021-2023.
Surface Work Ratio 1:10
Surface Work Ratio 1:10 Wet on Wet (detail)
Surface Work Ratio 2:10 (detail)
The mark is a horizontal line.
surface work ratio 3:10 detail
Surface Work Ratio 3:10 Dry (detail)
The substrate is paper.
Surface Work Ratio 4:10 (detail)
Carriers and binders are limited to oil and cold wax.
surface work ratio 6:10
Surface Work Ratio 4:10 (detail)
Pigments are restricted to charcoal and graphite.
Surface Work Ratio 6:10 (detail)
The physical process is the repetitive action of mark-making, bending over paper laid flat, and moving my paint mixtures to create a line, over and over, again and again.
Surface Work Ratio 1:1 (detail)
The rationale is the contention that duplication is impossible.
The motivation is to question it.
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