The Making of Marks

Markings, No. I (Week 2-6, Reworked)

oil on canvas, 2020

22" x 28"

There is nothing I cannot paint over.
-Richard Diebenkorn

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The unsettling feeling of dissatisfaction coupled with a curiosity surrounding a life unknown to the present one, I set to the task of risking what was for what could be.  In so doing, I am able to give the painting its full meaning, and myself the courage to trust in what I do not see, but know to exist.  

Each mark I make develops a memory within the work and my process, regardless of whether or not I layer over it.  The mark is forever a part of the whole--merging with the new and engaging with it, holding both permanence and impermanence.

-OH

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