PAINTING / ARCHITECTURE
One of the most compelling images for me is a construction site; the sight
of defining space or a space becoming. All painting is spatial. Painting,
like architecture, is always threatened by the space it works to
domesticate. What we call ‘space’ has to be understood as abstract space,
as social space, as psychological as well as bodily and architectural
space. Painting brings these together, simultaneously, and without limits.
Like architecture and space, language domesticates thought. Our verbal
language appears linear and sequential. We run lines across our thoughts,
tracing mental trajectories. We strive for clarity to avoid muddling our
intent. Then we have to retrace our words. The retracing is always evident
and clumsy. But as we paint, we think, but within a visual language;
tabular and simultaneous.
In paint, our visual retracing and erasure most often supplement our
thought, adding dimension to the space we are attempting to construct. The
space of our thinking attains an ambient bodily volume particular to our
vision.
January 2007
