Gestures > Paintings > Carpets
The speed of my gestures is essential to my working process, I want to avoid deliberate thinking, I need to surprise myself while painting.
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I paint with speed and force by releasing intuitive and energetic series of procedural gestures, leaving traces of acrylic markers and pattern rollers on the canvases.
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I spread out the canvas on the floor of the studio,
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I work around and on the painting, adding layer by layer to achieve a universal depth in the painting.
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The tufted carpets are digitally constructed interpretations of my earlier paintings
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