Thursday, May 6, 2010
Outer Direction of Colored Flags
In 1987, Zuni /Goya was the name I gave the series. I had made a somewhat Indian blanket design superimposed over the landscape.
These were very concentrated years and being so immersed it seemed these paintings were the next year a bursting to the surface for air.
I added the counter flags and a new even more complex surface sandwiched in between came into being.
The black and white had the look of striped shards I find now in New Mexico. I called the painting a title with Sierra Nevada in it which was Goyas title for something of his.
I had driven from California that year through New Mexico but I was immersed in these ideas already. I had already been drawn to Pollock and his relation to the west.
The etching was a development of the black and white but I kept going back to the landscape to see what I would discover there.
I suppose I have done this to this day in black and white abstractions accompanying my recent work.