Strata

Another NYC inspired piece consisting of wheatpaste poster bill scraps…

The backstory and background comes from a piece in which I had lost my way. I had a whole section of glued and painted resin scraps that just were not gelling, so I pulled them off …which left behind an incredible gritty and decaying urban texture. Once again, instead of opaquely obscuring the collage elements, I used my graffiti peek-a-boo effect.

This is part of an urban series that all contain broken mirror pieces (found that way, so no bad luck!) which invites the viewer to look closer on many levels.

Strata also explores the idea of geometry… obviously not as perfection, but as erosion. The translucent stripes are meant to both organize and disrupt the image...like looking through window blinds.

It reflects on how geometry underlies just about everything in our world; from architecture to typography, city grids, and graphic systems. But it comments more though on how those systems either degrade, overlap and/or change with time. It embraces both structure and residue—the framework that shapes things and the traces left behind when that structure shifts.