- Interval
Stripes of Pont-Aven
I began painting stripes as a background for a horizon; a lateral line of context in a field of infinite space. Yet as gradations and contrasts of color in these vertical lines interacted, another kind of space was defined. Some stripes pulse against the surface. Others recede to a kind of background. The eye falls into a hint of depth, only to return to the painted surface in the neighboring color. The relationship of the stripes to each other doesn’t so much suggest a distant horizon, but a more intimate space. It’s the energy of two hands nearly touching. It’s the nodes of the same note played on two strings. It’s the difference of a space so minute it would seem insignificant, but engenders the most acute awareness that space exists at all.