Original painting. Oil on linen with ground bullet case brass powder and larger spent bullet pieces. 20x20 inches. 2025.
Stay on the Line is a painting about pressure, contact, and persistence. The composition is held together by lines, thick accumulations of paint, embedded spent pieces of bullets, and brass power from ground-up bullets that make the surface feel both pictorial and physical. The work moves between image and object: part body, part diagram, part wound, part objects of violence.
Materiality is central to the work. Paint is dragged, scraped, layered, and pressed into relief. The surface records the act of making as a sequence of impacts, revisions, and repairs. The embedded bullet pieces interrupt the painting and insist on the work’s physical presence.
Original painting. Oil on linen with ground bullet case brass powder and larger spent bullet pieces. 20x20 inches. 2025.
Stay on the Line is a painting about pressure, contact, and persistence. The composition is held together by lines, thick accumulations of paint, embedded spent pieces of bullets, and brass power from ground-up bullets that make the surface feel both pictorial and physical. The work moves between image and object: part body, part diagram, part wound, part objects of violence.
Materiality is central to the work. Paint is dragged, scraped, layered, and pressed into relief. The surface records the act of making as a sequence of impacts, revisions, and repairs. The embedded bullet pieces interrupt the painting and insist on the work’s physical presence.
