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Theresa A Anderson stickywater
 Image detail: stickywater/ topography 40. 2009. 24 x 18 inches.
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This series of color fields developed from a larger body of work, stickywater, in which I passionately recontextualize image, text, form, and tactile sensations. Often I work from old found photos, interestingly textured, or beautiful found objects that I then insert into paintings, drawings, or sculptures. This series of color fields was inspired by a quiet “snapshot” snow scene of the woods near my grandparent’s house.
As I paint the layers of the composition I am reminded of and thinking upon a walk through the woods; the smell of fresh pine, the dense layered birch, and the surprise of the hidden lake at the edge of the woods. How would I describe this moment in time for you, the viewer, in the most abstract form of color?
Pouring watered out acrylic and allowing the paint to dry into reticulations motivates the ensuing densely layered, woven, drips and pours. The final pour is typically a very structured element, a translucent water lake of oil color that may read as topographical map. I juxtapose the beginning, many colored, non-structured pours and drips of a dense wood with a linear, calm, and structured pour.
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olive green
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grass green
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sky blue
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Ochre39
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Orange 37
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topography 36
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topography 38
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Topography 43
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Topography 42
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Topography 41
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Topography 40
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