Sunday, September 2, 2007

mapping memory ...

i've been assessing and assembling 'works on paper' from the past few decades in an effort to show some lineage of thought or mind maps of painterly endeavors. the most provocative seem to address the idea of simultaneous thoughts and images through 'veils of time'. this one, entitled: "make political what you can't control" was begun in venice, ca in 1988 and went through a few dozen transformations until 2006 when i finished it here in pa. it started (and ended) with the idea of dante's rings of hell, the notion of hell - and later evolved to include the sounds of solar winds, water memory and camus. "earth song" (a musical composition), - and one of the last pieces i recorded with erik cartwright - accompanies this series of works.