I try to work on supports that include found materials or found supports themselves. I like the idea of working with something that already has a history of use and care and is therefore charged with a kind of energy.
These eight “residue”paintings are on both sides of four pieces of sintra(a kind of plastic) I found along with unwanted picture frames in the hallway of my studio building several years ago. At first I just let them be a surface next to the painting I was working on to try out colors which I had been doing on the wall for years. A kind of staging area that I filled with paint marks to experiment with possibilities. Eventually all eight sides were filled with this information and around the same time I was becoming less interested in the way I had been working on the large “serious” work. I began to see these eight surfaces as foundations of “found” information I could use to make a painting and shifted my focus to seeing what kind of images they might become out of this chaos of residual mark-making.