SLIPSTREAM ANDROMEDA

 

​ Story of Andromeda: royal daughter, she is tied to a rock, where a chimera will have come to hunt her. In the wee hours Perseus navigates positions for the stranded. Andromeda galaxy,  next of kin to the Milky Way, will be his Polaris. Made during a dark time, in a studio once a cattle trader's den in the Kansas City Stockyards Exchange, these paintings record the nearly crashing, the safe haven, the save. I want the largest possible extension and topography, being Perseus to the dilemma of the studio: here, where I throw pigment powder over stand-oil saturated panels and I pull mono prints from the powder on the floor.  A three screen silkscreen on gampi, created at Banff in 1999, is a coda to this set