itch Glassman A p r i l
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Art With a Purpose
Tell me about your work. What influences do you incorporate into your artistic mix? What you see up here now is an array of work from the last year and a half, two year… It has been a transitional year that’s why the work will look somewhat shifting… Here you’re seeing the end of one piece of work and the beginning of another piece of work. Well the history comes out of one piece hear that I want to show. Eight years ago, I was drawing and mind-raking and exploring the depths of oneself and out of this comes these images. What was happening was I was exploring my own self and… line making become more important than the colour. The line making actually began taking the form of a script. The script came out of the process. I am process orientated and here the script just takes over as much as the images underneath the mark making and the mark making got pushed underneath the images and eventually the mark making said, “This is what I am all about.” It is about a dialog between the work and the materials. Over a period of several years this mark making became more important…. I gave it a name… I call it markography. I am very political and very much concerned with issues of the world. …. The notion is to try to reconcile the relationship with opposites. Markography. Is that your own coined term? It was actually coined by a visitor to my studio and some years ago and I just decided that was a good way to answer the question people ask me what is this script about. So what happened again is this language evolved. 53