Jack Whitten

" Obsessive mark making is an attempted to find painting's zero degree to see if it will give away to another kind of activity and, if not, find the most reduced gesture that still comprises a work - to find fullness by emptying out"
Butler, H.C. (1999) After Image. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

I find this quote interesting in terms of my practice I am considering how to manipulate positive and negative spaces on the colour field, through mark making. "Attempt to find painting's zero degree" is an interesting way to approach this, by etching away the surface of paint and paper you become more aware of the negative and positive spaces. I approach this in away that both positive and negative spaces interact with each other.

" Marking Time." This was another approach to the work of mine that i am interested in. Robert Irwin discusses the marking of time in his works, the way i approach time is a slow etching process, the viewer when encountering the works can be overwhelmed by the excessive marks and time then becomes a big part of the works.