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My inspiration for the paintings in this series comes from a single hexagram in the iChing--#40/Deliverance.

In the six lines of this hexagram, the broken lines suggest openness, the unbroken lines resistance. The ratio of broken to unbroken lines suggest that deliverance from trouble should remain both fluid and challenging.

In playing with the positive and negative spaces of this hexagram, I found some surprising visual effects. The paintings and the haikus they inspired served as a meditative code for engaging in unsettling times.

This series is minimal in composition, but stylistically complex. A roughly applied plaster substrata is layered with oil and cold wax, then sanded and carved and stained to reveal a map-like substrata.

Variation on Deliverance II/ Negative Space Only

If I choose to fall,
as we all should--pure, groundless,
dark--from time to time,

I drift. Hinged only
to hope, there's geometry
hidden in blizzards.

christine crockett

hicrockett@comcast.net