A painting is an utterance: an effort to communicate, released in a swarm of particles. Somewhere in the air, they organize, sort and join one aspect to another, shaping individual colors and marks into legible molecules, into images.
Like letters or numbers, colors are basic building blocks. They are points of location on a limitless shape which shifts continually. My paintings begin with hand-plotted graphs and internal algorithms. Numbers are assigned to shifting geometries in the color wheel in an attempt to examine the canons of color, while bringing form to invisible numerical patterns.
Color mapping is a metaphor for the way language simultaneously limits and illuminates. Optical phenomena like simultaneous contrast and agitating geometric shapes untether our trust in our senses. Texture and brushwork act as noise, a crackle over an air wave. A shadow is a murmur, a lapse of understanding that is not a loss, but an active, alchemical space.
- Brianna Bass