Palimpsestuous

This installation explores both the nature of display and the palimpsest of painting. Referencing the way painters build up the layers to create a depth of image, here the abstract image is created by the act of viewing through the multiple, separate fractured acrylic sheets mounted in a carpenter’s vice. Attached to a table used by numerous artists, the fragments on the sheets are echoed in the table. Displaying the work in this way subverts the white cube conventions, presenting both the way and means of making at the same time as the finished work. The whole installation, however, becomes the work and the paint on acrylic element subsumed within the whole.