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STATEMENT OF WORK
For some time, I have been adamant that the painting cannot be flat. The thing I was
seeking was an embodied painting. A painting that has to exist on the surface in a particular way,
whereby the oil paint coalesces, embedded, with the ground. I started to build up panels with
protruding points, as if a mass is pushing up from behind the burlap-stretched painting surface,
poking, piercing out. Paint camouflages the protuberance but also reveals it. While I became
suspicious of flatness, I came to believe undoubtedly in a suspicious painting, one that could be
suspicious of its own self, of its own body and muscle, its eye extending outward, watching us.
These protrusions or pressure points come to be understood in a number of ways: as a
mass coming through the painting, like a foot gently poking through stockings; as a muscle, a
limb, pushing out and then retracting; as the “stuff” that forms a body; as a naive (but
trustworthy) defense mechanism established as a protection; ultimately, as a painting bursting
out, being pulled apart.