Paper, Scissors, Fish | Melissa Becker
Paper, Scissors, Fish
8 - 27 October 2009
Notes on Paper, Scissors, Fish
I always seem to go in two directions at once. This time one was slow and deliberate and the other quick and spontaneous. Things tend to break down and meet half way, then trade places. In the beginning the still life was for you and the collage paintings were for me. Now the collage paintings are for you and the still life is for me.
The collage paintings are a mystery. In the initial collage stage I had no idea, deliberately, about what I was doing so they surprised me completely. I was seeing black and trying to get to gold. Painting them was more like cooking than eating. I needed the still life to get away from brooding. They taught me how to paint by rapid response. And they fed me.
Bon Appetit
Melissa Becker

































