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Drop Cloth
1998
- 25
x 35"
Acrylic & Oil Pastel on paper & canvas
First
Paint Can Mark
We're now into
the mid 90s. I've gone to canvas, fed up w/paper. I was living
in a rental house, and trying not to wear out my welcome by
making a huge mess. So there was a roll of brown butcher paper
on the floor as a drop cloth.
OK.
Some paintings fight with you, and I was fighting with one at
the time. I kept adding the next part- realizing it wrong, and
sponging it back off, over and over. It was a tremendous mess
anyway, and I realized that I liked the paper I was standing
on better than the painting~! I began to think maybe thatıs
the real Art... Hmmm. So I picked it up and plastered it over
the canvas.
The paint can mark is on the right side... and this would begin
to make its way back into canvases as an element. But thatıs
how it started- and this is the very first example.
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