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Liberated Forms 1-42 evolved from the photograph series Drawing with Nature 1-100 and Drawing with Nature 101-207, which were completed in 2023. I randomly chose 42 out of the 207 because they seemed viable for moving the shapes within them. I cannot trace back these 42 images to their original state in the two aforementioned…
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This series of four drawings began haphazardly to reconcile language, image, and natural form into how they can come together sensibly. Once again I chose an Oriental screen painting format to work with this subject matter. They are each 60 inches long and 22-1/4 inches wide. The idea for a leaf “to float” started with…
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After spending the winter of 2024 taking pictures of the drying leaves and flowers on my studio table, which turned into the photograph series Leaves and Flowers 1-100, 2023-24, I could only imagine myself drawing from the photographs. I am obsessed with natural form because I live in a city. And I want to make…
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In the late fall of 2023, on my studio table, I began assembling the leaves that I cut from my house plants with the petals of the lilies that dropped off the gorgeous bouquets that decorated the dining table of a friend with whom I used to dine every weekend. I started photographing them. The…
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Way back when somewhere in the midst of 2023, I began the series that I thought would tell the story of my art-making since the 70s. I told the story in The Artful Mind (pages 22-31) that goes like this: In the 90s, I saw a retrospective of the work of Jasper Johns in which…
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In preparing these drawings for posting, I had to put them through Photoshop in an effort to bring the images back from the depths of poor quality. In doing so, I valiantly tried to read the year written by my signature. I managed to see two years, ’77 and ’79. It made the most sense…
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A discovery after I made Coloring Book Pages 1-42 was incorporated into the title of that series. The shapes that had been isolated with black ink lines could be seen on their own viably as mere shape, unrelated to the photographic image of which they were a part. So I decided to use a fine…
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It was only after I had dismounted my installation at Installation Space in North Adams, MA that its owner informed her followers that the gallery was closing. Instead the space would be used as a revolving entity to bring visiting artists and the local arts community together. My work was chosen for the last show…
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In my efforts to close down my almost two year project of Drawing with Nature with the photographs in the series Wide Angle on Nature As It Turns to Dust, and Coloring Book Pages and all the variations that will emanate from there which I have yet to document or even do, I came upon…
