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The Ceaseless Horizon, Text paintings, 2005-2012

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These paintings start with two or three pages of text transcribed to the canvas. The texts chosen have varied from navigation text books to Georgia law books, from accounts of ship wrecks to letters and emails, from imaginative works by my collaborator Mary Jo Marchnight, to pages from Marx's 'Capital'. Words are highlighted or obliterated to create a new text and images added. There is often a horizon line and the pages of text are cut so that the words exit the right of the painting and enter the left. This also applies to the images hence the title 'Ceaseless Horizon' and the reading occurs in an endlessly repeated cycle.
When Night Falls, 36"x53" 2005
Morse Code, 36"x53" 2005
The Wreck of the Iolaire, 36"x53" 2005
Seaspawn, 36"x53" 2005
Seawrack, 36"x53" 2005
...Ing Room, 36"x53" 2006
Errata non est pulchra No 1, 36"x53" 2006
Errata non est pulchra No 2, 36"x53" 2006
Tug o' War, 53"x108" 2008
High Seas Act, 36"x53" 2007
Horizon of Justice, 36"x53" 2007
Beyond Beyond, 36"x53" 2007
And yet, yet and..., 36"x53" 2011
Ku-sa-pon-a-ke-se, 36"x53" 2011
But no one knows...,36"x53" 2011
On the other hand, breakers, No 2 36"x53" 2012
On the one hand, builders, No 2, 36"x53" 2012
On the other hand, breakers, No1 36"x53" 2012
A Wave of Pessimism, 53"x108" 2010
The Shipwreckers..(double sided painting, side 1) 38"x51" 2007
The Shipwreckers..(double sided painting, side 2) 38"x51" 2007
                                    Art subverts our grim reality while being made of necessity as a silkworm produces silk