My most recent works are shaped from birch plywood with a
router before the painting process begins, in a kind of pre-cropping action.
The landscapes that are depicted are all based on direct observation of
real places. By removing the traditionally accepted square/rectangle orientation,
I have taken way those four familiar corners that have always contained
our frame of reference. When we look at nature, we don't see squares and
rectangles. We see something rounder, something more peripheral. This format
has also allowed me to question the veracity of the traditional notion
that a painting (and it's picture plane) is a "window".
