Tag: layers
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Connecting Dots: Installment 7
RELATIONAL PROPERTY: a property that depends on a thing’s relationship to other things. While taking philosophy at Rice, I was intrigued with the concept of relational properties, and later used it in my thesis to describe what I created for my MFA show. In 1983 I was ready to take the images which I thought…
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Fully Cooked: Installment #6
Through the years my paintings have been ‘fully cooked’ entities. Under-paintings (painted sketches) are sometimes spontaneously loose so I know I could work that way if I wished – but no…I am not done until there is nowhere else to go. A frequent remark I hear is – ‘It must take you forever to do…
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Approaching The Center – Installment 4
My masters thesis exhibit was called Approaching The Center. Each large canvas was entitled Center Space Variation and numbered. The average size was 5’ X 6’ On my committee were two abstract painters and a philosopher specializing in Aesthetics. The written part discussed how an intricate piece of music is able to send a listener…