The series “Painting Time” began in 2011 and renders the abstract concept time and its measurement into visual and literal form through the medium of color and structure. The works are composed of small individual paintings. In these small paintings, each of which represents either an individual day or week, I translate a day's personal experiences and moods into a single color. This color is then combined with a neutral tone according to universal patterns such as the percentage of the moon that was in shadow on that date. Each year these installations have looked at different elements and ways of visualizing and tracking time. Days have been organized sequentially into weeks either horizontally or vertically while looking at the relationship of day to night, or sunrise and sunset, and waking and sleeping.
Beginning in 2020 I re-imagined "Painting Time" which had been based on exploring the ways in which we organized time into hours, weeks, months, or years. The last 2016-2019 Painting Time was based on seasons, which was one of the earliest ways in which time was organized.
With Covid my experience of the passage of time changed into a discontinuous and layered sense of time and memory, rather than the chronological systems of time keeping I had previously used. The new work: Painting Time: Moments, organizes paintings & drawings on wood panels of various shapes and sizes into related groups using a metal armature. I designed the armature and Michael Maes fabricated it. The result is a painting/wall sculpture.
In this body of work, I strive to create an eloquent balance between my personal perceptions and universally recognized structures that represent the passage of time.
“Painting Time: Moments-Santa Fe, NM, May 2023”
