Stacking Series, Arcs & Rectangle Series, 1997

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In the late 90s, I was using templates to create the most beautiful objective images possible. I still have the templates, worn on the edges and colored with the residue of whatever drawing implement passed by them to make uniform lines.

The geometric forms had become for me elements that did not mean anything but themselves. In the 80s, I plugged them into my idea of an approximate design of a body form in Ten Large Constructions.

The following slide show is the Stacking Series. The group is missing the orange one. The slide went missing. The black image shown here is an overly worked scanned slide to make sense of what I remember the real drawing to be. The pieces are all 30 inches in height by 22-1/4 inches wide. The media are oil pastel and charcoal (the charcoal marks are part of the reason the slides scans were so difficult to correct).

The next group is a variation of the original Stacking Series whereby the oil pastel colors are manipulated within the forms and variations of the same color emanate. This series is call Arcs & Rectangles, the measurements and media are the same as in Stacking Series. (The green one seems to be missing, yet I may have skipped it.)

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