Raw Faces

After cutting up canvas that I staple around the wooden stretchers that eventually become paintings I am frequently left with long thin strips of material.  The wider remnants I resew together  and  am able to ‘reuse’ again to be  restretched  for another painting.  But what to do with those pieces that are too narrow to be resewn?    Weave them, of course, loose threads and all.  My default is the portrait.   

Mosaics

This series began with a painting called The Romantics that I  had made into a giclee print.  I cut two of the prints into strips and wove them back together to create the  checkerboard texture visible in the portraits.  The two figures in the prints  were used  as points of departure for the portraits.  After cutting the portraits in half I paired them separately creating a conflicting kind of dissonant.