I'm an artist that paints with paper.
I use, whether it’s billboard paper culled from the streets-
it has a use value,
usually the materials that I have have some use value in the world.
And I begin to take these materials and form what I consider paintings,
sculptural paintings.
So the materials in "Pickett’s Charge,"
the largest images of "Pickett’s Charge" were
images that came from the internet and that I sent them to a billboard company.
And I told them to make them billboard size,
I think I told them, “I want people to see them from the freeway.”
So it became pixelated,
and it became kind of “CYMK’ed,”
and that was the main layer.
Then there’s rope, I used underneath to create the line work.
And store-bought paper,
I would probably say that each one of the canvases has between 5 and 10 layers.
The first layer underneath you would see is,
a kind of fluorescent colored paint.
And then I would put the string on top and then I would build it, and build it.
Usually each layer takes about a week
to put on and dry.
It’s almost like a tree, the tree rings if you cut it, you can kind of count the layers.
