Seeing Through
Since my work started to focus on gesture as both catalyst and metaphor for changing your mind, I’ve struggled with the reality that gesture is, in fact, a movement. And as movement, a gesture travels over space and time. X , Y, Z axis + time. We’re talking about four dimensions and as a painter, I work in only two.
With | Hold
So it’s been a full week here and what have I done? Well, I began as I often do at a residency: start with a painting that has been lurking about and exorcize it. Fortunately, the piece that has been gray-matter-squatting ties in well with my desired focus whilst here at Monson: exploring gesture as both a way of learning and expressing a mindset, and employing new gestures to unlearn a thing you want to change.