unfinished business
After retiring from teaching, in early 2013, I began to build this website. Uploading digital images was straightforward, but it was the digitizing process itself that reintroduced me to work that I had not thought about for many years.
In particular, as I scanned colour slides I rediscovered drawings and watercolours that had not developed beyond ideas for larger work.
In ways consistent with my current interests in both materials and scale, this new body of work represents completion of these ideas. The result is a series of small, painted wood sculptures that include the resurrection in miniature of large, long-since-destroyed canvases. For me, 2013 was very much a time of reflecting upon and developing unfinished business a concept that became the title for the 2017 solo exhibition.
More recently, I watched Paul Simon tell Stephen Colbert of his interest in rerecording his earlier compositions by making small changes and recording with new people. This resonated for me for, while creativity is typically synonymous with newness, it is also valid to create newness through review, reflection, reevaluation and remodelling of old ideas.
In particular, as I scanned colour slides I rediscovered drawings and watercolours that had not developed beyond ideas for larger work.
In ways consistent with my current interests in both materials and scale, this new body of work represents completion of these ideas. The result is a series of small, painted wood sculptures that include the resurrection in miniature of large, long-since-destroyed canvases. For me, 2013 was very much a time of reflecting upon and developing unfinished business a concept that became the title for the 2017 solo exhibition.
More recently, I watched Paul Simon tell Stephen Colbert of his interest in rerecording his earlier compositions by making small changes and recording with new people. This resonated for me for, while creativity is typically synonymous with newness, it is also valid to create newness through review, reflection, reevaluation and remodelling of old ideas.