Selected Composition 16, 2013

22 x 57 x 18 inches
ink, polypropylene, polystyrene, paper, wood

The Selected Composition works build upon the preceding Random Composition pieces. Like those works, they join conventionally divergent approaches of artistic production: the monochrome, photography and sculpture. The aspects that determine the Selected Compositions are: height, width and depth of the front and back faces; the distance that the front face is offset horizontally and vertically; the color of the monochrome on the face; and the four images that are shown on the sides, top and bottom of the sculpture. Each of these aspects that form the piece is determined by a randomly drawn option. However, unlike the Random Compositions, if one of the options, for example a particular color or image is not useful for the piece, I draw again and another is presented. Eventually, through this series of selections, I find something that I can accept for each of the aspects.  They are not pre-conceived but do fall within an range of possibilities that can be selected from to produce an unexpected aesthetic outcome, not unlike the selection one makes within a given setting when taking a picture.