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the new online exhibition for august 2006 is here.

white on white
photographs of daily images that lead to obsessions of minimalism, repetition and silence.

white on white. memories of walking and waiting. allowing time to understand itself first, so then i too can take refuge in its understanding. marking moments with these quiet spaces. empty. vacantly occupied like many of the street calls or remnants of echoes in the air, silenced by fingers over my ears — wishing — wanting.
as sitting upright, pacing back-and-forth to tunes of mozart or rachmaninov, sounds of memories and smells and songs dreamt, skin touched, lives lived. pacing in and out of the studio, doors shut and sounds quieted only to hums, drips, echoes of laughter.
and it was gone and here all at once. here — the white on white, plain as day is bright. and still, night would come, but the white would fall on white. squares of white. …of white.

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view previous exhibitions:
forward as now — july 2006
kinematics — june 2006
from figure to abstraction — may 2006.