Summer is here!

I started this blog because I thought you might like to see some process shots as I go into summer studio mode. This week I've been working on what was conceived to be a long, low wall of canvases. The canvases and paint work like bricks and mortar, grouped modularly to be reconfigured at will. Today I was thinking of opulence so it became a column. The way these pieces play out depends on considerations of the site. Tomorrow it might be a wall again, or a group of posts or a bench.

In the background are two sections of aluminum siding left over from my studio renovation. I stripped one section and buffed it to a mirror sheen and powder coated the other section with metallic gold. The idea was to refer to paint as a covering -- so this piece is naked/dressed, stripped/coated, buff/covered, etc. I also wanted to play around with a common tendency to extravagantly decorate worthless garbage in order to make it look "classy."