Archeology 101, 2012. 7' x 5'. Acrylic, diamonds on canvas.
I dug into the paint with a linoleum block cutter, cut the surface with a blade, scrapped the skin with a glass cutter, and punctured with a nail. Channeling de Kooning's 'Excavation' and Twombly's style of scratching the surface of the canvas I have turned painting on it's head by digging the content out of the earth of the work instead of building it up. Richter's technique for his metal squeegee abstract painting is also a father of this idea. This way of working has come from my time as a landscaper, my love of dinosaurs as a child, and influence from my father who holds a degree in geology.
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