I’ve been painting copies of my photograms.

I proposed doing a whole show of these called Mimesis and at the opening there would be at least one mime and we would wear the same outfit. No concrete plans for this as yet.

Lately, I find it helpful to remind myself that my core adult art ideas were formed doing performance. And my deep dive into photography began with just needing to learn to do documentation and then applying the core sensibilities to that medium.

Fastforward many years and a FREQUENT occurrence is that people ask me how my abstract work relates to painting. I can go on AT LENGTH about “methods of inquiry” “conceptual art strategies” “performative aspects,” technical aspects of the photography side of that question. But then I have zero to say on the painting half, my practical working experience being frozen in somewhere around second grade.

The best way to figure out is by doing, so I thought I could meditate on this question by working with my hands and hopefully arrive at a more balanced nuanced perspective.

Some extra questions about the historically intertwined relationship of optics and painting…

is why I started with copies of my photograms.

“Painting from photo”

endless loop