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Chiara, 2019

“They think it’s the amount of detail, and that really isn’t it. Yes, a detail should be there and it should be carried far, but the picture’s got to be bigger than that. Otherwise, it doesn’t hang together and it doesn’t give you the force of the thing. It’s got to be abstracted through your vision, your mind. It’s a process of going through detail in order eventually to obtain simplification and cutting out. And it’s a very fine line because you can’t overdo it, you can’t cartoon it. It’s a subtle quality, very subtle. And with less sometimes to work with, you gain more.”

pre-kiln James cookie jar and mug at the open studio

Chiara (half life size), 2019

“I think I have made it apparent that the model as he stands before you, however still he may appear to be, is not static. During the time of posing he drifts through many moods. While his body occupies practically the same place there is constant change. A flow runs through his body. The forms reorganize, new dominances occur. Every emotion has its expression throughout the body. The door opens, someone comes into the room. The look of the eye has its correspondence in every part of the body. The model sinks into reverie, every gesture of the body, externally and internally, records it.”

James, 2019

“I think I have made it apparent that the model as he stands before you, however still he may appear to be, is not static. During the time of posing he drifts through many moods. While his body occupies practically the same place there is constant change. A flow runs through his body. The forms reorganize, new dominances occur. Every emotion has its expression throughout the body. The door opens, someone comes into the room. The look of the eye has its correspondence in every part of the body. The model sinks into reverie, every gesture of the body, externally and internally, records it.”

Faviola, 2019

close ups of James

James, 2019

Faviola, 2019

Mara, 2019

nitram charcoal on paper

5 week pose

“I think I have made it apparent that the model as he stands before you, however still he may appear to be, is not static. During the time of posing he drifts through many moods. While his body occupies practically the same place there is constant change. A flow runs through his body. The forms reorganize, new dominances occur. Every emotion has its expression throughout the body. The door opens, someone comes into the room. The look of the eye has its correspondence in every part of the body. The model sinks into reverie, every gesture of the body, externally and internally, records it.”