Brett Cravaliat

John Knuth - Master Plan (2014) - Watercolor, gouache, flyspeck and acrylic on canvas

For anyone who doesn’t know (because I didn’t & had to look it up), flyspeck is the stain left by the excrement of a fly. 

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"The artist feeds watercolor paint to hundreds of thousands of common houseflies. The flies regurgitate the paint on the canvas. As they eat, they digest externally. Every time they land on a surface of something there is a chance they will deposit what they just ate on that surface. That mark is called a flyspeck.

To control this process, the artist builds boxes that limit the flies’ movements to the surface area of the canvas. The final paintings are comprised of millions of small dots of paint, determined by inevitable deposits of these flies. While created with a degree of chance, the artist, through research and continued refinement of his process, is largely in control of where and to what amount the paint is applied.

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