Process As Product "There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand."                  - Philip Guston The projects listed below, make up Process as Product Start with whichever you like, go with the flow. There will be hyperlinks between them there is no need to proceed in a linear fashion. Process as Product artist's statement Initiation Journeys (inspired by the Villa of Mysteries) "So it begins in the life of a woman who is wanting. She does not want for a man, nor for a child. She wants to be filled like a cornucopia past the point of overflow. The issue is emptiness of the sort that grows from the inside out regardless of one's productivity, like hunger when it is for love or creative work or some other soul food."     -Nor Hall project statement                               view project   Mapping A painted picture is like a vehicle. One can either sit in the driveway and take it apart or one can get in it and go somewhere. - Mark Tansey read statement                                         view project   100 Broken Clamshells   "The problem lies not so much with some feminists' concept of what femininity is, but rather with their misconception -- shared with the public at large -- of what art is: with the naïve idea that art is the direct, personal expression of individual emotional experience, a translation of personal life into visual terms.  Art is almost never that, great art never is."      -Linda Nochlin read statement                                         view project   Beach Paintings "I can not be so many things, I can not be something for everyone. . . woman, beautiful, artist, wife, housekeeper, cook, saleslady all these things.  I cannot even be myself, not know who I am.  I must find something clear, stable and peaceful within myself within which I can feel and find some comfort and satisfaction."           - Eva Hesse read statement                                         view project   WIP (Work In Progress) "When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several times.  In each destroying of a beautiful discovery, the artist does not really suppress it, but rather condenses it, makes it more substantial. What comes out in the end is the result of discarded finds.  Otherwise you become your own connoisseur"                     - Pablo Picasso read statement                                         view project   Starting With a Line: the color within  the red antlers read statement                                         view project   Core Samples "Art is still the only place in the world where you can do exactly what you want if you pay the price which is having no one else want it"          - Grace Hartigan read statement                                         view project   in honor of and inspired by "The House With the Ocean View" "An artist needs to become familiar with that which is most hidden from the self  by the self  for this one thing which one fears to know is often the driving force in one's life.  These recognitions seen in art are the difference between decent and extraordinary and great."     - Pat Stier read statement                                         view project   Left Hand/Right Hand: a dialogue "I am still trying to find out what painting is, and the only way to do that is to be alone.  The loneliness has to do with what you do."          - Estaban Vicente read statement                                          view project   Journals "painting is just another way of keeping a diary "      -Pablo Picasso read statement                                          view project   artpals read statement                                         view project   small series read statement                                         view project