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Comment by Resident Curator on June 2, 2011 at 9:04am

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The worked, layered color generates a pulsating energy in this work, while the textual components provide a refined equilibrium.  The dark under-painting/ground comes through what looks to be a richly scumbled and eroded surface.  I really like how the geometric circular shapes float to the top, and also reiterate the elements of text, on a slightly larger scale.  The stenciled pieces add a structural support that is absent in some of your more gestural works, and they work especially well here.  The figure with the feminine symbol (Luminescence)  is a more overt or didactic combination of this interplay - in this piece there is a more reciprocal flow between the painterly surface and hard edged letter shapes.  I also find myself amused by the title.  The scrambled letters in that circumstance could be interpreted d as dyslexic, but it also reminds us that for a purely visual image there are often no words.