Posted: Jul 24, 2012

here is the completed work.Still no correct title and still no winner. Frustrating that I cannot post it larger... even so, it needs to be seen on paper to see all the detail. Rather like an etching, its the small delicate marks that I love, much as in Jim Dine's etchings of some years ago. I'll post a larger version on my Facebook page. Good luck!  

Posted: Jun 28, 2012

currently being drawn... There is something very compelling about tools which have been used and attained a patina of sweat and use. There is a polish of time that burnishes metallic objects even as it rusts quietly beneath the users hand. Jim Dine did a series of tools and objects as etchings in his delightfully scratchy blotchy style. I often find myself recalling his marks and try to bring that rather randomness of spurious mark making to my work. In the digital realm there is no acid to eat through the ground and produce unexpected grains of texture...