Conversation 2.17 -- Recycling
From the original 2007 series: The Poet 20"x20" mixed media on canvas
This week I began another series of works -- or should I say I revisited old pieces of work. My studio is full of inventory or physical memories of experiments from the past. One of my promises to myself this year was to recycle some of these memories and see what I could discover. I decided to begin with a series of twelve abstract portrait pieces I had attempted ten years ago. The materials were cheesecloth and acrylic paints. The original idea was to make three dimensional works. Let's say this was not my most popular portrait series. Colorful. Hard to discern. Messy in the execution. They never really pulled together. And -- they were impossible to store. Eminently crushable.
We'll see where it goes.