Orange Painting #3, 2010. Oil on canvas, 12 x 16 inches.
Orange Painting #2, 2010. Oil on prepared paper, 16 x 18 inches.
Orange Painting #1, 2010. Oil on prepared paper, 15 x 14 inches.But that's what it looks like to everyone else.
I've been trying to get out of the studio and wander around the neighboring neighborhood, taking advantage of some of the dereliction and crumbling facades before they're one day torn down and replaced with something more respectable. Searching for character is really such a selfish pursuit; I think overall it's better to try capturing these fleeting bits of ugliness than it is to fight their slow gentrification and lament the aesthetic loss. Plainness does suit the greater good, really, far more than falling bricks and exposed wires. The things I like about squalor have far more to do with how it catches light than how nice it would be to live amongst.
