These paintings would not be continually on display so they could be more demanding and expressive than usual .
The panels were stripped and primed with a number of coats of white gesso then taken down and transported to my studio at home.
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Looking
at the shutters in place the fact that they opened and closed
suggested the image of a book opening and closing.
The long rectangular shapes further reminded me of the spines of
books on a shelf. The idea that the shutters had to be 'closed' in
order to see the pictures painted on them seemed to agree with
the concept that, in order to read a book, one has to close out the
rest of the world. These paintings would not be continually on display so they could be more demanding and expressive than usual . The panels were stripped and primed with a number of coats of white gesso then taken down and transported to my studio at home. |
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