Material and Metaphor II, 2023; tarp. construction mesh ( 11'x 6' ), found wooden pallets, dry wall.   In this installation piece, I wondered how else to 'paint’ the room and grapple with a surface barrier between us and the world. The surface of a painting is a kind of screen onto which I've been projecting ongoing meditations on construction and transformation. Historically, we talk about painting not quite as a screen but as a window into another world. A window, a screen. Maybe a 'filter' is also apt-- a barrier between us and something or somewhere else, holding something in or out while letting something else pass through. Filtered, the image is both more easily digestible and more distanced from reality. Closer and farther simultaneously.