Title: Transitions #09
Media: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 36"x48"
Finish Date: January, 2006
Commentary:

Not quite a cat, this piece is in at least its second life. I began with a more direct expressionist approach, randomly laying down texture before the colour. I then began to abstract emergent form by adding colour. When I had finished, I realized the irregular colour forms were not related to the structural underpainting. The disconnection was not pleasing to me so I reworked the piece.

Interestingly, the transparent rectangles are still not integrated with the structural underpainting, but in this case they do work for me. They have an ethereal kinechromatic existence which I find a little eerie. The cat was not forced to forfeit another life.