Soft Poem 10, 2023, acrylic marker, acrylic, dry pigment, acrylic medium on panel, 12" x 9" (30.48 x 22.86cm)
Available through the Bridgette Mayer Gallery (Philadelphia, PA). For pricing and other information, please contact the gallery directly:
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Soft Poems is a series of paintings that's an extension of work I've been making oer the past 6 years. Whereas the majority of my glyph-populated works have very dense compositions and lots of visual information, I imagined Soft Poems to be almost the opposite of that.
Soft Poems are meant to evoke a sense of intimate mystery. I imagine each painting as a kind of unintellingible haiku or other type of poem or writing whose meaning is hidden not only by the glyphs, but also by having those glyphs float in translucent layers of pigmented acrylic medium. some of the Soft Poems are readily seen close to the surface, while others are revealed only after sustaind viewing through layers of color.