IMAGE AS TEXT/TEXT AS IMAGE

I like to read.  A lot.  So no doubt reading has always influenced my art.  In this series of works the influence is quite overt.  I have made a visual language using my images to represent letters of the alphabet or occasionally short words.

The image code is in addition to the visual “code” that is always part of a painting:  color, line, shape, texture, movement, etc.

I’ve had a lot of fun with this series and have gained new appreciation for the difficulty of language as well as the difficulty painters have with nearly every painting.

Expressing ideas with language is not as easy as playing ping-pong.  Words get lost, misinterpreted, misused.  I have no solution outside myself to heal a world that needs to be healed by honest, considerate language.  I keep working on the language of painting. The communication is more immediate and direct.