Reductionism
How do you progressively reduce the complexity of a visual idea? When does an idea become over-simplified? I'm regularly taunted by reductionism. Its a challenge to take elements out of an idea without seeing the larger thing quietly fall apart. These reflections, in Pink Flight Afloat (60 x 40 in | oil on panel) may still seem complex but they've undergone significant iterations of reductionism, a ruthlessly simplifying of forms: Three lines becomes one line; A gradated
