"All the Dimensions, Visualized"

Semi Abstract Dimension

This painting represents all the dimensions of existence that can be shown in 2d. I have three sets of giant dry wall easels installed on the walls of my home studio.  A dry wall easel is simply a piece of drywall used as an easel; meaning I just stretch the canvas straight onto the drywall, instead of a traditional wood stretcher.

They are very easy to make, you can build a wooden frame around them, back supports, etc. I took to the idea because it makes starting larger canvases very easy and 100% less intimidating. Instead of hours invested in one flat paintable surface I have 5 minutes.

It frees up my creative abilities to try new things and pushes my style to the next level. I am no longer intimidated by the one or two lone stretched canvases in the studio that confine me to “well I better make these canvases good, or this one has to count”.

This painting, as most of mine were from 2009-2021, was created in just such a way. It hung next to three other similar sized canvases, and became, at first, just a painting to apply the excess paint that was on my brush each time I was working on other paintings in the studio.

It’s a typical semi abstract landscape with some ruins in it. There is a representational obelisk, several flat platforms and the space is filled in a quasi Van Gogh technique. This piece was in production for about a year on the wall easel, then it went to the framer to be stretched at about 50% completion.

I pulled it out of storage and worked on it periodically throughout 2020ish. Finally in 2021 I pushed myself to finish it. When I push myself like that it usually means I see the end results and finally all that is left to do is just put forth the effort to paint it, and that is what happened.  I love this piece, it moves me, it represents decades of my own style, and everything flows just as it is supposed to.