Trying to understand the tree's and how they relate to the artwork that I have been doing for the past few years. I have simplified my work over the years. Photograph's and painting's and now the constructions and collage. Always impressed with the early work of Frank Stella and Sean Scully, both of them artists who I have worked with ... Stella at the San Antonio Art Institute in the early eighties and Scully because of his wife at the time Catherine Lee also in the 80's. In the early eighties I began to work with a series of black and white checks that were irregular or I want to say naive' in nature. I compared htem to 'handmade' roadside sign's that you would see in Texas or the south.
Now our new house has exposed me to the tree's that we are surrounded by ... it's a new way of seeing Stella and Scully. In a much more natural way than before. The line and mark of an early Stella can also be seen as nature and the way that stripe and line interact in nature.
