I sketched several views of landscapes in Northern Ontario. My intention was to make marks that hover between the powers of a storm and the order of a Cartesian grid. An island, a tree, a house, a cloud become the point of origin and are as vulnerable as they are strong.
The sketch is roughly chiseled into the plywood not completely unlike Patterson Ewen's routered work. Paint is laid into the grooved outlines. As the work develops, paint is added and removed so markings recede into the texture of the landscape or are exposed. I became aware of a play between pulling out from the wood and pushing back into it.
As this work develops, the landscape becomes more abstract. A similar vulnerability and strength of earlier work recurs through a single object such as a cloud, suspended in a vast space void of anything else other than the texture of paint.