“The Anatomy of Skin”
“The Anatomy of Skin” Completed Works

“The Anatomy of Content”

Statement 3

And after months upon months of working and reworking the surfaces, finally something has emerged that I  can live with. Each piece has taken on a personality of its own. In each, the chaos of the first step, composed by the mechanics of structure, and then layers upon layers of  my own palimpsestuous mark making on top of mark making. They have evolved into showing the structure of each painting. The raw canvas sometimes peers through mingled with the last stroke of spirit and passion.  The struggle to compose the elements which is the materials, to render it immaterial with the imposition of content. Content with that which holds the flesh of paint coupled with the feeling of a skin that holds it all in.  The process and thought is seeing materials  in a new way, some more fluid than others, and others more rigid than some. Materials can give rise to the invisible.

Bariffe

October 5, 2013