11 March 2026
Cleaned up my phone's photo library today and found that I've been taking pictures of weather-warped missing animal signs for years. When I think about the recent attempt at painting the one I saw in Forest Hill in tandem with with CPR face shield bag, Third man, Flat window, and On diversion (among many others), it's clear that I'm trying to find a way to address a splicing/segmenting/rupturing of vision. Swan (working title) is one I made today with perhaps a similar concern. From a discarded pack of Swan filter tips I saw on the ground near the bus stop by my studio. The big elegant bird framed and kind of caged by both the package design and the light shifting across its creases. Also, back to Third man—it resolved itself today. Became two levels of sheer webbing suspending the star instead of one—the holder being held, the patch reinforced from beyond the context of the wound site.