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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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