Dennis Hollingsworth

First week of August.

No title yet for this one either. It just has to insist itself on me.

With this painting, I wanted to throw my now regular approach out and start with the monads, then knock the paint in a big slatherfest and stomp all around until it's done.

Typical to all the work, there are special features of each action of paint application that I want to protect. It's a cumulation of actions that renders a set of features, each collected in turn so that the number of possible moves that can be done... without destroying the previously noted physical features... diminishes.

I hope that made sense to you. It's perfectly clear to me.

This painting is simpler than one painted before, but it was much harder to finish. It's a combination of indulgence and restraint. I kept the colors muted and closer to the bleached linen support, which is amply exposed due to the start off with the monads.

And now, the details:

Carnitas. The wonder of flesh animated by something called the spirit.

A sucession of edits. Each action trimmed of distracting, lesser aspects.

A testimony of physics. A frozen explosion of material in dynamic motion.

A collection of natural form, peaked at maximunm strength.

Paint as an internested set of mutable, quivering actions as physical fact.