Vector Experiment

This is an experimental piece, silk chiffon over paper, for a show, VECTOR, opening March 3rd at Naropa University's Nalanda Gallery. Working with 5 artists from a class I taught last fall (Calligraphy for Painters). Our warm-up each class: walk out into the parking lot and find trash to use as a writing instrument. Practicing experimental marks made the force & pathway, the vector, of energy visible; and the possibility, or necessity, of translating that capacity for vitality into the formal italic letters. The results were so unusual and strong the practice became the seed syllable for the spring show.