Whole Meals and Vegetable and Stuff

This is a painting about the ways different systems can co-exist and interact both constructively and destructively. The background is composed of a grid drawn in pencil using a ruler to produce evenly spaced straight lines. Circles are drawn within the squares of the grids such that they overlap in places, and some pencil shading is done to highlight some overlapping. The background work is delicate, precise in some places, and a bit messy in others. It is topped by watercolor washes, delicate in their own way, but airier and blocking out large areas in single gestural strokes. Brushwork in acrylic tops the watercolor, and above all is poured acrylic media with various acrylic paints mixed in different ways. The poured paint is almost rude, going where it will, barely controlled. It cracks in places where the underlying watercolor pigment dries it out from the bottom. Things happen without control.

These different systems of mark making seem to harmonize and find equilibrium.