Pictured above is Memory #20, the most recently completed digital image from the
continuing Leaves of Absence series.
As I mentioned in a recent Blog Post (Memory #17, Tuesday, April 19) most of these works
have a long gestation period - this one far more so than any of the others to date.
I’ve made so many different states of Memory
#20 that in the end it became impossible to clearly focus on which ones worked and which didn’t – or indeed, if any of them had any merit
at all.
Yesterday morning I was looking over the
latest proofs and just as my eyes began to glaze over, there was an all too rare moment of
clarity in which I recognized that the version of the work reproduced above was, at long last, The One (or pretty close to it).
Pictured below is the genesis of the work,
a silhouette drawn onto a eucalyptus leaf with Winsor and Newton pigment markers. (The abovementioned blog post outlines the process from go to whoa).
The following “proof sheet” is a very small sample of the umpteen trial proofs I’ve made over the past several weeks.
