”Fabricate::Recreate” is a large mixed media on deep canvas that incorporates recycled fabrics and is covered in layers with acrylics, mica and water based spray paint. It took me a few months to complete. The theme is the ongoing process of personal and cosmic transformation or fabrication of “prima materia,” the primordial starting material. It also refers to style and *fab*ulousness given the use of fabrics, although here given a metallic spacey effect through many layers.
What’s especially interesting of late is that in my studies of electronics and electromagnetism is the letters F – A – B also signify parts of the equation for magnetic flux density. Force, Area, Magnetic Flux. I am not entirely sure how this equation is usually expressed but I fund the synchrony wonderful, as one the others paintings “Electrocardiogram” and “Translations” have the electromagnetic spectrum as inspiration.
This piece is available and for sale through Bogosplit Boston, located at Back Bay’s Copley Place: