Thoughts on paintings of June so far

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.

Jake Xerxes Fussell Interview

In process painting Untitled at the moment