What can happen on a 2-dimensional field?

What kind of tension can be created on that surface?

If that field is opened up visually from the back, what can happen on the front?

The interaction between the articulation of a deep space accessed from the back and a shallow 2-dimensionality expressed on the surface creates the visual tension that I am exploring in these works.

How do color, texture, line and suggestion of form create, contradict or enhance this surface conflict? Does the front always separate from the back? Can color or form unite the front and back? What happens when the canvas is strapped from the front? Is the viewer drawn into the back surface or caught on the front surface or somewhere in between? Or does the viewer oscillate from front to back, back to front? How do transparency, opacity and collage alter the surface and the viewer's visual perceptions? What happens to visual balance when
the canvas is divided by lines that cut across the surface? How do the lines and resulting spaces they define affect the 2-dimensional surface and the
3-dimensional space? What happens when a canvas is viewed on its own?
And what happens when it is juxtaposed to other canvases?
How does this confrontation create a new visual understanding?

These questions organize my exploration and process.
May they also assist the viewer's understanding and appreciation of the works.

March 2004