Hand in Glove.

"Slight of Hand."

Hand in glove, is a new series that I am currently working out somewhere in the deep recesses of my brain. This is the first image that has resulted in a complete form. The series, is a very personal one. Its scope is to include many different ideas that are being synthesized in my interior from the circumstances of my current life-situation and past art. In short, my art is and this series are the results of 'my dialectic' (Hegel's philosophy).

This series is based of American colloquial hand gestures. It also incorporates the ideas of sound that are bleeding in from my other series of three dimensional poems. Within the hands I am also playing with the thumbs and their significance to human relationships. I am also incorporating the history of the hand and thumb, as it relates to human history. Musical dexterity, mysticism, longing, selfishness, personality, humor are all entering the work.
I do not know how the series will end, except that it will be a synthesis of the reading, drawing, painting and living that I am involved in now.

I say series, but I have been so bogged down in working, with trying to define that word. On my webpage, I define it straight out of the dictionary. Prior to this series, I have always had this conceptual definition that a series has to be a set of works, that all look the same; same dimensions, same style, etc. This series is really challenging that infantile idea. It has freed my work to be more about the synthesis of ideas and content, rather than a marketable product lined up nicely on white walls. I want the idea to be consistent, the feeling to come across whether it is a silkscreen, drawing, video or painting. Who ever said that a series is contained in the way the product looks, is a child. It is about the ideas, not staying within one specific media on the same size material, slightly altered from one to the next. It is about the subtle differences between the definitions rather than the spellings of the word.

I must rid myself of the typology of the art world, to develop the voice.