I heard that Rochester Contemporary was going back to allowing four entries in their upcoming 6×6 exhibition. They started with ten, reduced the limit to four and then held it at three for the last few years. I was having with this wood motif during those four years. I needed four to work the mathematical variations and then I did variations on those for six years. When they switched their limit to three I entered smashed beer cans in protest.
Virtually the same religiously toned pallet as my stations of the cross with a heftier cream, they are ready to submit. They aren’t really wall pieces, I like the way look sitting on a table or a shelf, so I don’t put any hanging apparatus on them. RoCo figures out a way to hang for the show and then someone takes them home.
I love this rough cut Adirondack pine. Our friends, Pete and Shelley built heir whole house out of it. They gave me some boards from a mill up there. They are all roughly an inch deep none of them are six inches in width so I settled on a pleasing proportion, the smaller band is 1 3/4 high and the bigger band is 4 and 1/4 wide for a total of 6, and I glued them together leaving the rough cut on the top and bottom.
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