Primordial Coalescence from the collection of South Carolina Arts Commission

Primordial Coalescence, 1976

acrylic painting

48 x 60 in

Signature: signed and dated on lower right

“My painting relates to rather frightening dreams I frequently had as a child. In them, amorphic masses of color would move in amoebic fashion interpenetrating one another, getting larger and coming out towards me until I was almost engulfed by the. I have since some to feel that this experience might somehow be connected with and/or related to the origins of material reality, the Creation. Think of nondescript, amoebic forms, rather vaporous at first, gradually coalescing to form that germinant material substance from which the earth and its life evolved. I try to approach my painting in as nearly the same fashion as is possible. I do not begin with a clear idea in mind. I lay in very watery washes of acrylics sometimes waiting for them to dry before applying the succeeding wash overlay, but sometimes overlaying wet into wet. I continue to do this over and over. It is usually a very long process. As I overlay color mass over color mass, some of the forms that emerge begin to suggest certain organic objects. When I see this happening, I will sometimes give them further definition. I continue this approach until I get a feeling of coalescence among the forms and colors. It seems to me that in this period, I am celebrating the Devine Creation. The painting in the State Art Collection entitled Primordial Coalescence , a title I frequently use, is a good example of this approach in philosophy.”

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