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In 2015 I began a process of removing the constraints of illusion and specific content to focus on literal qualities of paint, both physical and cognitive. For those arrangements of color, gesture and surface, cardboard became an attractive and readily available material.
Two years later, cardboard became essential to me when we emigrated to Ireland from Northern California. Getting rid of most of our possessions, storing some, and mailing the remaining essentials to our new home all happened in cardboard boxes.
Faced with those now empty, flattened containers, I found myself thinking about the significance this material had both to my experience and to that of other people in movement. The ability of paint to transfigure this material provided a way into a type of totem creation that alludes to past, present and future. Color became a way to reflect my sense of upheaval and transformation. Arrangements were now inspired by, though not tethered to, recollection and contemplation. The end results were culminations of experiment and the rejection of easy personal taste.
What began as an effort to scramble the process of creation became a way of making new logic from chaos.
