1986 Woman with Clothes Blowing in the Wind

from Clouds, leaves, waves.


Chumash Indians in the Sierra
Nevada, at the time of Goya
painting, Women with Clothes
Blowing in the Wind--
tumbling through Sierras in Spain
a dry warm wind of inclusion,
swirling, whirling gyres of winding
reeds, generators of thought
and shells transmitted
through a projectors beam,
shadows of figures
on the tent’s walls



I painted a purple stain on raw canvas. I masked out a square or stripe with masking tape. I painted my black and white painting over the mask. I removed the mask and the inner stained surface on raw canvas was revealed. As a painterly device the surfaces of inner and outer were united on a single plane of tension between the two.





The Goya figures were an appropriation of a figure I still felt I could not make.