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Thanks for taking a look at my work. I
hope you like it. I have to confess right up front that by
day I’m an Electrical Engineer, the sort of person who designs the hardware
inside your laptop or cell phone. The path to art was through high school
mechanical drafting, schematic drawing, and doodling in meetings that were
much too long. Living in This year I have experimented with less
rigid forms, looking for something of the chaos of life. Along the way I've
added latex enamel household paint to my toolkit of acrylics and oils. Sticks
and fingers now also seem to be as handy as brushes from time to time. Lately, I have been trying to express how
perception and memory work using iconic representation of things, feelings, or
events. These icons are placed on a roughly defined background. The separation
of icons from background is intended to evoke the sense of cave paintings, a
name I use as shorthand for many of the recent pieces. These pieces show an
abstraction or deconstruction of a place or time or feeling stated in
simple ways. I have come to believe that there are two
forces working together to create these pieces: the rational and the
emotional. I’ve spent most of my engineering career in tune with the rational
and have a good working relationship with it. It chooses the theme of each
piece and handles technical bits like creating form and depth. The choice of how to
explicitly compose and execute the piece comes from the emotional force that
has found a way to express itself after all these years. It’s sneaky and
never communicates directly but guides and motivates the movement of my hands. If you find a theme running through what
you see, let me know, it is still opaque to me. What will appear on canvas
next is anybody’s guess and I’m as interested in that as anyone.
Bill Standing Standing Applications Laboratory, Inc. 1201 Kirkland Avenue Kirkland, WA 98033 425.828.6459
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