I first made a painting of what I thought to be the unconscious dream world, probably a dreaming of what one could or would become.
The most important feeling or idea then was the distance in pictorial depth of close and distant and the clap of hands feeling in that recognition of the surface where it all comes together as one. I made black and white automatic like paintings though I realized soon they derived from the abstract expressionists and surrealism.
I juxtaposed these found images with a shield made of resin and fiberglass, which John McCracken helped me with. The hard surface of the shield snapped the deeper space of dreaming into the real. ( I chose a more chalky surface like fresco for the finish on the fiberglass resin.
The shield was also very much like the hard heraldry of Piero.
