23 April 2025
Wall came from a conversation I had over the phone with Ross where we spoke about bodies in water in art; how water can fragment, suspend, and frame the figure, and how those effects might reflect the viewer. The painting is layered on top of an older painting of a minimized Los Angeles landscape, which remains partially visible in the final image like some detritus floating through and around the figure—I think that overlap gets at something simultaneously jarring and pacifying. “Wall” is also the title of a song by Ross that is often in my head.