"a Cogito for a dissolved self."

- Deleuze

My 'Process' series embraces uncertainty, building language from accident.  It began with a thought about language as a conceptual algebra, in which constellations of signifiers generate fields of meaning.  One might play with the constellational structures, in the space before words.  Pressing the point, I thought about existing languages attached to indefiniteness, equations with pre-undefined variables.  

The language I engaged is 'Abstract Painting'.  Focused on Minimalism and Process, Op and Psychedelia, parameters are rigorous: exposed supports, primary colors and the law of gravity - hands-off, all-over, self-reflexive.  The words feel familiar but the language is open.  In my 'Abstraction' objects and images freely serve as organizing systems. 

I prepare paint on a flexible palette, from which the colors spill onto canvas, allowing chance and fluid dynamics a central role in shaping process and outcome.  With repetition and observation, I discover patterns in the accidents I instigate.