Jeff Colson Essay
#35 Deborah Martin (Visiting Painting)
#36 Jeff Colson (Response Painting)
I am presented with this serene and lovingly painted image of overlapping doors. After a few seconds I realize something is amiss, nothing matches up! There’s no locking those doors! And certainly no assurance of a cooperative and stable picture plane. Immediately, I’m sent into a careening, nausea-inducing fun house of irreconcilable chaos! Out of self-preservation, my immediate response is to provide a rational, structural overlay in an attempt to tame this head-spinning beast!
You will find when overlapping the two images, the composition instantly snaps into a perfect state of formal compliance.