EVOLVING COLORWAY
Evolving Colorway is an installation and loose printmaking system that yielded a “yardage” of fabric: a set of prints each about 3’ x 4’. To make the prints, I poured house paint into a box, laid sheets of fabric in the paint, and then hung them to dry. As I added more paint to the box during the print run, the composition and color way of each print shifted slightly from the previous one. Paint dripping off the prints was collected in troughs and moved to a smaller box. Using this muddying waste paint, the process was repeated to create prints a quarter size of the original set.
Because I only submerged one side of each sheet in paint, one side is composed of vertical streaks formed as the prints dripped dry while the other records the surface image of the paint in the box before printing. These prints are “swatches” within a sequence that tracks possible average or neutral, though not reproducible, paint colors. Some of these prints will remain in tact as they are, and others will be used to create new sculptures and sequences (see HIDESING).
2011
Because I only submerged one side of each sheet in paint, one side is composed of vertical streaks formed as the prints dripped dry while the other records the surface image of the paint in the box before printing. These prints are “swatches” within a sequence that tracks possible average or neutral, though not reproducible, paint colors. Some of these prints will remain in tact as they are, and others will be used to create new sculptures and sequences (see HIDESING).
2011
