Painting over another painting because I later decided I hated it seems to be a reoccurring theme over the last two years.
This painting and another, Push Play, were started at the same time. They are both built on broken, hollow interior doors that I disassembled and then reassembled into squares because I couldn’t afford lumber at the time.
This painting was originally called “I can deal with that”. I went all Jackson Pollock-like crazy on it as a means of reimagining it. I have been trying to have the textures of the clothing be more obvious in my works but when I finished that round of paint splashing, I realized that I made the articles of clothing almost completely disappear. To fix that I decided to staple one of my wife’s undergarments and a plastic potato sack on it to bring the raw texture back. I also added a broken wristwatch. I drilled a hole in it so I could use an old wood screw to crudely attach it.
I asked my wife to pose for me in our bedroom to use as the subject of the work. I liked the perspective of the room and the way the reflection in the mirror looked in the photo. There is something about a moment so ordinary that it’s calming.
As mentioned, I want to retain the textures of the textiles in my work. Along those lines, I realized that I didn’t want to completely cover up the beauty that the abstract paint splashes made. That is why there is a transparent quality in the representative image. The textures, the abstraction, the subjective image all nicely converge in this piece. In doing so, it manages to strangely capture time.
- Subject Matter: Abstract
- Inventory Number: WSS20220911
- Reproductions: Available
- Collections: Color, Cloth & Chaos, Current Works, Exhibited and Awarded Works, Tales Among Old Threads