Seeing David Humphreys @aikenhump “anecdote” at @kate_werble_gallery . The painting in the office paired with the mobile by @bethcampbell7 was the skeleton key into David’s visual morphologies. The main rooms’ light order, Home and Billboard, is a delighting first take. But remember this home has a cookbook for endless dishes.
Before the countless decisions, I start with a grammar that is helpful in maximizing the spatial possibilities of each painting. I added the numbered legend to the drawing that started this painting just to make the point. For instance. I wanted ② ahead of ① and ④, and behind ③, I wanted ④ ahead of ⑤ and ③ behind. What happened in the making, was that ④ wound up behind ⑤ and ③ came forward.
This ordering helps when I am unsure of where things are in regard to each other.
A significant part of what something is, is where something is.
Closing a Box that Will Not Open, 2026, Acrylic on Canvas, 24x18 inches
These first three 24x18 are more muted then they have been and while at the same time, some are showing more intense contrast then before. It’s a curious experience having them go in two directions at once.
Nathlie Provosty knows the dark power of Abstract Illusionism (trompe l’oeil for paintings that are not pictures). A heady drug easily abused. But here used so sparingly to pry open flatness, allowing for the circulation of the air we breathe.
I reworked the big painting of the seven from my last posting which got me back into these three “Egyptian Paintings” from October 8, all four are now more spatial to my eye
