Fall 8, 2014, ink and color on paper, 36" x 60" (91 x 152 cm)

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Comment by Resident Curator on June 12, 2017 at 8:54pm

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Remembering the exquisite ink drawings in your Winter series, I enjoyed going back and viewing the piece entitled Fall (8).  The abstraction, like many of your other works, is both fleetingly gestural and contemplative of a delicate and complex landscape.  The duality inherent in the viewing is an intriguing experience- playing with the totality of taking in a larger scene versus the small, intricate details.  It occurs to me the colored pigment in Fall offers depth of space, as the misty white areas appear as fog rolling over a low rising plane.  The rust color performs the function of separating these two layers of ground in a manner that moves away from the higher contrast of the black and white, and yet speaks to elemental agents in the air and land.  I still find myself contemplating how these works might be experienced in their large physical scale. What appears as choppy line and brush work no doubt commands a more sweeping visual movement across a sixty inch picture plane.