blue world with yellow

oil on canvas, handmade paints

gallery wrapped, 30”h x 82”w

Zion, Zion National Park, Utah

handmade paints, tinted gesso

on fabric from my mother’s couch 

gallery wrapped, approx 4’h x 11’w

I became interested in the height width relationships of formats and their surface divisions. I set simple parameters for three oil paintings, and then for the 'paperworks' that followed ~ I divided the surfaces into three vertically oriented areas, keeping the width measurement of each stretcher the same but altering the height of each.

Of the three canvases, only one, 'violet music', was painted with a direct knowledge of the area. The height width relationship of 'redcopperinterfernce' presented a challenge, which was met with some experimenting. The last one however, the blue one, which my daughter named, 'God's Door', was a mystery.

Every time I changed the positioning of one of the vertical lines, by moving it to the right or left, by as little as a quarter or eighth of an inch, I didn’t understand the space. I was able to resolve the painting eventually, intuitively learning about the parameters that I had set for myself at the start.

I decided to go further ~ dive into, and explore variations of height width relationships within exaggerated horizontals and the division of areas on their surfaces with 'paperworks'.