Studio Poems
This is.
painting’s practice
Sleeping Portraits,
Work on the periphery, explorations in stretching, yoga recovery amongst dirty palettes. a reach back towards roots of ideas.
abstraction. material investigation. shutting off.
Early Sleeping Portrait ca. 2015-2017
Paintings
Which follow the Southern literary tradition
Short stories
Focus on texture and small spaces A conversation across a sitting room
Tea coffee chicory
Narratives adjacent to the significance of things
Elusive form
Form from modernist geometry that denies modernist geometry, forms that embrace vernacular presence
Exploration at the foot of history, exploration from the foot of an American culture, weigh-station between the Caribbean and the global south
Culture that is is not américain but rather francophonie, linguistic, vernacular, traditional, traditionelle, hyphenated folk.
Punching up.
Building immunity to what Jake Xerxes Fussell referred to as Folk cosplay. For this interview listen to his September 2024 episode on Spotify from Aquarium Drunkard.
In process painting Untitled at the moment