or maybe it's an artist statement...
My painting is about what I can do with paint. It is about my position, in a rapid world, as a painter. A painter of objects. It is about my relationship with the canvas and the thing I am painting. It is about intimacy and time. It is about the act of painting. It is about a reduction of sorts, like a minimalist sculpture. It is about the object, the wooden box or the sales receipt, an eye glasses case, or junk mail, an empty crate of shipped fruit, it is about the paint. It is not about its subject. It is about the faded palette. A veil. It is about the inability to re-present the objects actuality. It is about what is outside the frame: failure, obsession, labor. It is about getting to know something, to note everything about it, like a list. It is about itself as a painting, a warped mirror.
note: this is going to be the first of many drafts, hopefully.
