Seminar 1 Project #3, March 2012

Shimmer Stutter Space

(Descriptive Statement)

Layers of oils applied to the canvas by brush, knife and torn cardboard, working from darks to lights, then back again. Trying to achieve depth of space, shimmer and stutter. These paintings are loose interpretations of the repetitious pattern of my water bottles.

I applied new layers and glazes to tone down the color palette. I am not so sure these feel completed to me.

(Poetic Statement)

This common, everyday product, found everywhere, abandoned, left behind as waste. When collected and assembled into large groups, the empty water bottle becomes something to be admired and appreciated.

The repetition of the object becomes an intriguing pattern of material with an iridescent quality, as the light reflects from their surfaces and passes through the material of one bottle, then another. The shimmering, repetitious pattern is like no other, unique unto itself.

I love the idea of finding something intriguing about something that others pass by, or discard.