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This series of paintings began in 2000. They reflect a drift from Euro-African moorings into the unpredictable ocean of new internationalist perspectives. In this collection" I am letting go of the very lines that have defined my work over two decades. I reduced my art-making process to bringing paint and canvass together and work them through various motions with the elements of air and water to find a platform through which we can decipher our preferences and biases.
Process
Twenty years of effort to master, media craft, and other formal and intuitive concepts, lead me to a place called ‘letting go.'
Yielding
I am purposefully using this "expressionist technique" as a ritual for letting go of some ideas I formerly used to rigidly define my art. In the domain of painting yielding means that I have reduced my role in the creative experience to that of the facilitator. I bring media such as paint and other manmade lubricants together with the elements of air and water. The interaction with other forces such as gravity and others caused by mine own actions are captured by each piece of canvass. Like a window in a room.
Minimum control
I am pouring paint from a tea cup or plant watering can, on a canvas the floor, all over the room; I stop and give the elements time to interact. Dripping and splashing allows the elements of air and water to play a role in the execution. I come back a few hours later, or the next morning and repeat the process. Resulting layers of lines and color are influenced by my desire to influence the outcome. The more times I repeat this process the more selective I become in my choice of colors and where I pour or splash paint. Intellect and intuition gets their chance when I decide I want to move the paint in a specific direction. Shifting and dripping in selected areas give the illusion of forms and shapes familiar to my mind. In the end I invite the viewer to see what they see. Most times it is different from what I see.
The titles are only my reflective interpretation.