Thursday, December 13, 2018

A NEW VOCABULARY

Art is a form of communication, but does it have a tongue? Is it a language? Does it speak to us as literature does, with symbols and syntax?
Early pictographs were a hybrid of picture and writing, and once separated into art and letters, could they ever be reconciled?
If the language of art is shape and color, then it must transcend the limitations of any specific literate language. It is potentially universal in its expression while defying explicit or mundane interpretation.
Its closest analog is poetry, where unexpected juxtapositions can trigger the imagination to extrapolate worlds of meaning and significance.
From the cave wall to the gallery wall - visual, visceral, material, and timeless - Art endures as the most potent form of human communication.

The 2018 glue season begins with a pictographic experiment in biomorphic shape, where color formulas are allowed to expand within a vocabulary of wet cell forms.
It's important to remember that each cell showcases the expression of the materials themselves - the character of their chemistry. I facilitate but don't interfere.

Above - #1801, 24" x 24"
Below - #1802, 24" x 24"
Ink and watercolor suspended in polyvinyl resin glue on cradled wood panels

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