Work in Progress

This is my latest piece connecting three dimensionality in real time and place and the concept of letter writing.  I am slowly filling each box with a letter addressed to "dearest M" which is the actual title of the piece.  I continue to mull what it is I am trying to say and how to say it and am wondering if I should make the letters accessible to the viewer (personal?  all that pulling of box covers off to retrieve letters?  etc.).

I recently went to the gallery at Phillips Exeter to see an exhibit where words were actually applied to various art forms:  clay; paper; woven cassette tape; thread; cut up books in new assemblages.  I continue to think about Cy Twombley and his painting/pencil writing.  In a discussion with my niece who is also a painter, we commiserated about the hassles to maintaining an oil painting set up in one's room.  One of my issues is the amount of turpenoid  that I go through in order to maintain clean colors.  I should have buckets of the stuff.  This too will make itself known.  I do love the act of painting and splotching and spreading color.  How to utilize these without doing another (traditional) self portrait.

All my work continues to be personal and self-portrait like.

Next post will show my finished Australian sweater where I stole a basic idea from a book and made it into my own through color and design changes.