14 July 2025
On the heels of talking to Danny and the resulting R.B. Kitaj references, I'm thinking about compositional fracturing, of the regeneration of motifs through optical strategies. Wish I had given Danny a little more space to unspool that thread through the lens of his current subject matter, and I suppose that's partly why I'm noting it here. In any case, for me much of his work's dynamism comes from the patience with which he coaxes light, color, and form into an equilibrium that generates meaning through becoming, and the way he is beginning to repeat motifs in that process is allowing for the structure of the motifs themselves to become malleable. That's exciting. I find that in Kitaj too, in the way his figures often seem to sprout from or imply an underlying geometry.