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Almost 7 years ago, with minimalism in mind, I tore some rectangular pieces of white paper and attached torn white rectangles in a grid. The result was flat. (How does Robert Ryman do it and Agnes Martin: How did she do it? You know, make something out of not too much.) But, I didn’t throw them out. They went from one box to another. Over the years, they were forgotten, discovered, or remembered. Long hard looks failed to conjure up a solution. At one point, I painted one set of rectangles yellow, which proved to be exactly what it was: a change of color.

But, things can happen when your mind is empty and you’re surveying your art stuff! Looking. And so, one January day in 2010, I placed the 7-year-old grids on my work table, scrounged through boxes of color snippets of all sizes and shapes, laid them within the torn rectangles, and, well, that was easy!! I liked them.

From there to here, for example…