Ordinary Aura

hey chris, these look great. i particularly like the last one. how large are these? what else can you tell us about these?

Alan, this painting is about 8x10 inches. As of late I've abandoned large-sized paintings in favor of figuring how to make small images that read intensely. As I said in an above comment, this painting had its start in isolating and looking at segments of Fra Angelico frescoes--his San Marco series. I am expecially interested in the way abstraction coexists with repesentation in very odd ways in those frescoes....but also how he is able to represent very movingly, but in relatively simple form (of course we can only say this from the vantage point of seeing how the depiction of form has evolved since him) the Christ's life and passion.
This particular image is based on an image of a crown.

Other interests/questions:
1. How can physicality be image-producing?
2. How can one make image that is at once highly specific, but unnameable?
The latter is particularly challenging to me at the moment, and I do not believe this image is wholly successful to that end.

But I'll keep posting what continues to happen in the studio.

thanks for the info barbara. i was really surprised to hear that they were so small. i can relate to your interest in fresco/abstraction- i have looked at giotto with the same eye. surfaces, too.