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26”H x 19.5” W x 1” thick

When you walk around here and look at the finished art, it is good to keep in mind—at least, in my opinion—that, if questioned, you would find that each artist loves their material almost as much as the final product they create from those materials.  To a painter it might be the plasticity of the oil or acrylic paint, or the feel of tubes the paint issues from, the craft of sizing canvas, or the whisking hand motion of actually painting.  To a jeweler, it might be the raw stones, or the tools.  It would make a good survey.  From my perspective, there is often only a short distance between the interest in the material and the final product.

An object that has hung on my wall for ten years is the upper, worn portion of an orchard ladder.  What is left of it came from outdoors where it stood until it crumbled in an abandoned citrus grove in a hot, thermal California valley.  The pinched angle of the last two steps in the ladder are held together by rusted bolts and washers, and the grey, rutted topography of the wood steps and frame says more about the time it resided outdoors than the people who used it.  I’ve never fully deciphered the message that it sends to me, but the foreground of time shown on its surface, the rutted texture of the wood, and functional geometry of the converging ladder rails makes it an equal to the ideas and stories that might follow.

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