How Does the TranSformation Process Blur the Line Between Painting and Collage?

Found images and own Photography form the starting point.

What is cut up, appropriated, and glued together becomes the act of composition, Becomes collaging, becomes painting.

fragments are collected not for what they show, but for what they might become once altered.

What remains is often a collapse — the image becomes pure matter.

Painting as a process of transformation: BEYOND Paintbrushes a hodgepot of tools is used.

a visual space between IT’s being and undoing, between appearance and disappearnce.

rags, cutters, sandpaper, spatulas, sponges, cleaning brushes – unusual ways of blocking the paint’s way.

The nourishment that these paintings provide is not ‘useful’ — it is essential to sustaining the vibrance of imagination during an era of unprecedented manipulation.