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Edge Control is a way to navigate ideas about the diagram, the edge, surface tension and limits, syntax, and glitch, through modalities of painting. The works currently veer towards being hard-edge and monochrome. The titles are numbered chronologically (for archival purposes) but they also obliquely reference an event. As the series builds up indefinitely, shaped stretchers reveal the evolution or apparent deterioration of a form. A play on words and phrases may also instigate an improvisation of a shape.
Swivels is an attempt to negotiate painting as object, while still exploring ideas of flatness and restraint. The shaped paintings turn on a steel bracket and are set up in such a way which displays the painting in its different facets and components. Sculpture is often viewed in relation to the human body. The work proposes the potential to swivel and confront or shy away from its audience. The tension of such restricted movements at such proximity from the wall, informs the work.
