The following paintings were made using grease that I scraped off of a backhoe that digs graves at the Tumwater cometary. When the grease gets pumped into the joints of the machine it is red and transparent. After it seeps out the joints it has become brown. The purple is from an old, unused tube of the same type of grease, the oxidation and aging process has turned it purple.
When I began painting with grease I was scraping the black soot off of car engines. This proved too time consuming so I switched to the backhoe grease. I found that painting on found object surfaces showed the greasy texture well and contributes to the message of the pieces. The subjects in these paintings, in combination with the materials are about new ideas and possibilities coming from materials everyone has around them, and working class folks having the closest contact with these materials.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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