Blurring the Borders

January 10, 2012, 2:34 pm
Filed under: Randomness and Intentionality

“God’s Appointment Book for July 10, 2011″

Late last Spring, I set up this 19 x 10 grid of 2″ squares and chose a red color target for the left of the grid and a blue target for the right half of the grid, then spattered primary colors using random numbers to open and close the cells of the grid as usual. After a lot of rounds of spattering, the colors began to define themselves. Then I reset the numbers to grade the colors horizontally—blurring the distinction between the halves. So they’re still two distinct colors, but the border between them is in the process of becoming more indistinct.

This painting got finished just in time to be a present for my middle daughter and her new husband for their wedding this July.