11.11.01 Statement
In the late, vigilant fall of 2001, I took my camera with me for a day, snapping pictures through my windshield as ran around town following my daily schedule. Holding the camera out with one hand and driving with the other, I blindly took about 20 pictures.
That night, I cut heavy sheets of watercolor paper and made a standard composition space for the work. I then downloaded the images from my camera. Haphazardly arranging and cropping them to the prescribed format, I printed them to the 15 sheets of paper I had prepared.
Over the next 30 days, I took out 1 piece at a time, looked at it fresh, and worked it. I used the materials at hand; water, acrylic white, pencils in graphite and white.
The process was, and is, key to me. I didn't have to come up with an image, it had been dictated. My common experience, seen through a third person. Giving me the ability to interpret an isolated memory with detachment.
Tod Herron