The Repurposed Disks of 2020 to 2024

During the pandemic I relinquished my gigantic painting studio, which I called "The Cloud".

This meant I could no longer work on fifteen-foot canvases. Instead, I reduced the scale and switched to the format of the disk. Not long after I wrote the following:

Warm Up Work and Repurposed Paper

Long ago I picked up a helpful hint that I have followed my whole life. It may have come from Betty Crocker or Ask Heloise or possibly Andy Warhol. It applies to using a new cookie sheet or painting in a new studio: Throw the first batch away.

Trust me, I do this when I make a batch of waffles or pancakes. It follows the aromatic smoke of the smudge stick in a studio before I begin new work. This hopefully makes it clear to you why I chose to repurpose a stack of circular recording chart paper instead of burning through perfectly good and labor intensively made handmade paper.

Painting is not making cookies or waffles. However, working in a studio where I have either never worked or haven’t in years feels much like starting up a car that has been stored in a locked barn, up on blocks………..or peanut butter cookies breaking in a new baking sheet.

Let me share with you my first cookies: No Right No Left No Up No Down No Front No Back Recalibrated/Repurposed 12” D Recording Charts.

It is quite a transition from making exclusively fifteen foot paintings for the past five years to work on one foot diameter disks. I have greater appreciation now for those who "print your name on a grain of rice".




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