Border

Pictured is a close-up of one of the borders of the "squares".

This is new for me. Prior to this, I have been painting borders which are very volatile. The borders, on close up were mini-paintings in themselves. The big squares, in the overall painting, was where structure was, but on closer examination especially along the borders it was anything but structured.

I've had a lot of thoughts about that, the most obvious being how we live in these gridded neighborhoods... but find that our day to day lives are much less structured than the aerial photo... Also how we create borders and the tension that we find on those chosen lines.

But this set of paintings is something different. I'm not eliminating the messiness that brushed paint naturally gives, but this is much cleaner and has a very modern (which is out, I think) feel.

So for today, I guess I'd be a "neo-modernist" :-)