These paintings inspired the "Spirit Unfolding" event held in Pittsburgh in 2006 - An Arts celebration held around several venues in the city. The paintings came from many years of meditation practice.
Essentially they are works created in a meditative state and capture the inner experience as it unfolds.
What is the inner experience? What does it look like in a work of art?
These pieces are created in layers and in certain light will seem very alive.
A word on technique for these paintings -
I paint an image on wood, then I enter a rhythmic state of spraying, marking, rubbing and scraping paint on five successive layers of plexiglas placed over the wood. Working on all the layers at once, I continue to paint and glue onto the work materials such as burlap, lace, string, fabric, wire and cracked glass tile.
The image is pushed and pulled, challenged, sometimes totally obliterated with paint then uncovered into unplanned and unimagined directions. The initial image can lose individual traits and takes on universal characteristics.
When a balance happens between the image and the random, rhythmic placement of paint and materials, the work is complete. The layers are compressed and then sealed in a frame.
-William Rock
All works are created with spray paint, acrylic, oil marker, fabric, cracked glass on layered plexiglass and wood. All are 22"x28" or 22 x 34"
