8 October 2025
In real time (working title): based on a recent visit to Rob Calvert's studio in Sag Harbor, during which he showed me a painting he made after a dreaming of an acid-washed mushroom cloud overlaid with a ghostly windmill. I think top of mind is capturing a similar effect that appears as a concrete visual certainty while retaining a provisionality that allows the painting to play not just with optical focus, but with the reliability of the image's logic. Which in this case has turned into an attempt to cancel out the conceit of the central plume, which is trying to locate itself at a dominant center. Maybe it's about looking into how close its context can come to impersonating it.