12 October 2025
Working on a currently untitled painting that began after re-watching my mother's 2014 documentary Getting to the Nutcracker. Near the end of the film: transition after transition from backstage to performing, from dark to light, from solitary to grouped, from naked to clothed. Aligned with my recent study of Ed Ruscha's 1965 drawing Normandie—revisiting something familiar in a newer, simplified, contrasted, uncorrupted, willfully surface level way. LA. Harsh re-looking, re-considering, re-looking again. Negation again too, this time of information stored. A hard drive wiped clean. Stretching the thing further and further away like time has until it becomes an artifact represented in binary notation...digging things out of the luggage sitting in my studio, I found quite a few letters and stamps, including the 1984 signed Christo postcard that Stanley Hertzberg gave me commemorating the wrapping of the Pont Neuf.