Subway Sonnet No.
3- La felicita’ deriva dalle nostre azione Commission from Subway Sonnet Series in Delray Beach Fl by Susan
Because of the process I was using, it’s always been about mark making, about surface texture, and about excavation. I have always had a keen interest in the environment and in conservation, so my paintings have become the themes for the way that things get degraded. My current theme is this rust and corrosion. Which, since the current political climate we have around us, this idea of rust being the colour of the decade. Our infrastructure is failing; all of our institutions are failing; our political systems are failing. Everything basically is rusting away, the corrosion has taken over and the only way to change
something now is to radically get back involved. So my process is emulating that spirit of the surface falling apart and things happening to it over time. Daks : You almost turn them into Mondrian paintings with the way that they’re all cropped down to panels of colour. Stephen : I try to remove some of the visual clues to the three-dimensional aspects so the images are broken down to the squares and diagonal areas. Daks : So Susan, I was interested in the progression of your work from your early series that you did called Threads. The collages that you did
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