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Dry, mixed media/unstretched canvas, 122 x 192", 1998
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desert is vast, but fragile and vulnerable; beautiful, rapidly and
constantly changing; neat, clean, open, ordered, disciplined and precise.
And it's honest, revealing everything, clarifying every relationship.
I try to bring this back, not as a souvenir, but as icon and metaphor.
I'm interested in the tension between abstraction and representation, in the mark and in what it represents; in surface as fragile membrane; in the precision of chance and the controlled chaos of gesture, and, underneath the work, in earth as anxious object because of us. -Mel Pekarsky |