Check this out! Lost and Found - Thoughts Discarded in under-looked places, in a  sense these small abstract text-paintings give voice to the spaces they interrupt, creating an audience of happenstance viewers that chance upon them. Less intimidating to the viewer by being in the everyday environment of the city, without any outside authority to direct their consideration, the connections made by this audience will be based on their individual experiences of finding and questioning why the work was left in  its place. Which is my intention for this project.  I don't have a specific message with the individual works and their placement - they have their own meanings for me, but in discarding them I want to open them up to the random, and idiosyncratic meanings they can create for people chancing upon them. The text used and aesthetic form mirror the random placement -  in that the text used is decidedly ambiguous (- in between statements in the middle of a conversation, the subject of which could be anything -)  The abstract forms of the painting add another layer of randomness, often starting out as palettes, they develop without prescription. So in the end, the elements of text, form and placement come together to create an open web of elements fertile for the happenstance viewer to explore. July 2008