Pandemic Skies

In the sameness of days that marked pandemic isolation, I started a color diary of blues and grays, shades of sky, with the goal of making each swatch as different as possible from the ones adjacent to it. The project grew to become 25 individual works, most with 50 swatches, mounted together to create 1,253 Skies of 2020. The odd number resulted because the first piece had 53 swatches, made when I was still working out my constraint. 200 Skies of 2021 came next, reflecting the same sameness and constraint, but with a more energized palette. 

The pieces in Seven Non-Consecutive Days in 2021 use bands of color that suggest simple horizon lines, each slightly different but also the same, in the way that the unchanging days of isolation at times overpowered the "normal" experience of sequential time. Pieces in Weathers contrast with these works on sameness, in that the weather, in most places, can always be counted on to change. The unbleached linen substrate in these series asserts itself as part of the palette and contrasts with the smoother textures of the paint.