In revisiting some mediums I was trained to use, as an illustration student at Paier College of Art in Hamden Connecticut, I have rediscovered watercolor casein paints. What I appreciate about this medium is its beautiful, clean flatness. It embodies an oil paint-like quality, in its depth of pigmentation and color brilliance. It feels perfect for designing these boldly colored, otherworldly geometrical abstractions that I so much enjoy rendering. Moon slivers, squares, triangles, diamonds, circles, spirals, all with clean edges, grace each Canson board surface. Curved, wriggling, pencil-wide lines intersect straight lines, geometrical shapes and solid planes. They create an arresting depth that one can imagine stretches in all directions, possibly to infinity. In this series, when a sovereign shape intersects another, color changes often occur, complementing each other. It’s about relationship: “ships (flying discs?) passing in the night”, space, depth, layers. I’m just beginning to explore this mysterious, created reality, and can feel it call to me with further, deeper concepts, as the series develops; currently I have ten in the collection. The mathematical cleanness and certainty of defined lines and edges, flat colors, so predictable…combined with the less than sure circling, curving, rambling, human unpredictability, added to the mix. Energy? Gamma waves? Electricity? Buzzing? Protons, neutrons, spinning electrons? Definitely movement, and vibration. This is my attempt to make sense of the unseen worlds, bringing them into our everyday three-dimensional reality, to understand, combine or juxtapose those often invisible and different worlds, varying vibrational frequencies, and planes of existence. Geometrics and organics, side by side in a painting, both stable and resting. And an element of the mysterious, the unknown: you are being watched. Not only watched, but perhaps, also being pursued. And the ephemeral, floating black diamond is always central to each painting’s narrative.
