For over a decade I have been working in pairs, sometimes it's more intentional than others. I like to work the problems of one out in the other. It is not that the first doesn't look right, but it's usually a different feel. A traditional diptych is one picture separated into two planes, but I have always thought of mine as two movements that combined make a song. Both usually work on their own, but I would never switch which is on the left or right. In a way they have a visual dialogue similar to the one we experience when going through photographs. My studio end wall is just a bit over ten feet wide, and usually I have just enough room to fit two paintings on it. This just became a pattern over time. These two are just about 4 x 5 feet each. I look at them in tandem, I like to move across them from left to right with my eye, and when I can I like to sell them together. At this point of the process I start to move pretty fast, and a lot of the thinking has been done. I don't like to think a lot while painting. I paint to escape from art at this juncture. A lot of the foundational drawing is now set, although they are a bit crisp for my liking. I look forward to destroying the images in certain spots. I also want to be very careful not to get too seduced by color. I like to have a good reason for doing anything at all to them from this point on.
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