Collage 2023 - Using the tape from making the paintings, I wanted to create studies for new ideas and imagery for more new paintings. The intention was to create work that was insular and referred to the process of its own making, as it were, a visual feedback loop - the subject of the collage being the process of painting in the studio. The challenge was to create a self-referential system, a visual vacuum, but it is inevitable that external references seep in through the viewer, who carries within them the world outside the studio.

All collages mounted on 9 x15 watercolor paper. Sizes refer to the composition.