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LUC I-XXIII Painting itself is the subject of my work. I have been working on square supports of canvas, linen, and burlap. Some are prepared with clear size, others gessoed; each mode informs paint application, absorbency and viscosity. The square shape is important, it implies something nonhierarchal, and lends itself well to an all-over composition, I am not interested in too many distractions other than mixing the paint and laying it down.   Following about 3 years of working exclusively with Titanium and Zinc White, I added Ivory Black to the mix, and have been working through a grayscale which usually spans a given format. Strokes have been applied horizontally across the support until the surface is filled or covered. The paint is graded incrementally, sometimes several shades or tints are applied in the same painting.   More recently, I have been making concentric circles with a painting knife that radiate nearly to the edge of the square supports. Though similarly constructed, the results couldn’t be more varied. The circle format and its personality of opposing tensions has interested artists throughout the 20th C. Paint applied in alternating directions, suggests movement, or rotation. Expanding grayscales moving from dark to light create subtle illusions, depth and space, bands vibrate gently between tints. Presented together, each painting, each installation is part of a continuum.