Dictionary Selection IV(1999) oil, pencil, crayon on canvas panel 14" x 11"
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created for art 572, multi-level painting

These are observational studies of found text, cropped according to compositional selections.

I think there's something real spanky fun about the anachronistic feel of dictionary layout. The seriffed font, the crisp diagrams, and how everything has its well defined spot in our lexicon, all neat and clean. The juxtapositions that occur on the same page or in the same block of text are interesting, too.

Fragmentation seems to be one of the issues that I'm drawn to, as I usually work in a collage method regardless of medium, and I am fascinated by cropping, looking at parts independently of the whole--the fragment then becomes about its own inner relationships, and through its own incompleteness can only imply a greater context or meaning, which it does regardless of the veracity of such meaning.

(But really, I'm just lazy.)

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