Processing Process



Every visual artist regardless of discipline contemplates the importance of process in their work. For myself, process begins well before the application of paint. With the meditative milling of lumber for stretchers and strainers, stretching canvas, lycra, or paper, and the many layers of paint, process embeds itself. All the seemingly ugly unimportant, and unpolished bits, coalesce to form the soul of something beautiful. I also believe in our professional worlds that the scar tissues of our less than perfect selves the raw humanness of mistakes, the evidence of our very being coalesces to form the soul of our work. 





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