Patterns

Gina and I have been working on some patterns lately. This is the first time we've sat down and made patterns that actually repeat. It's had me thinking of the influence patterns and textiles have had on our work over the years. It's come up in a bunch of jobs, but really, I've been thinking of how it played a role in the early parts of our personal collaborations.
Just before we started working on paintings together, I was working out this idea of weighing mechanically reproduced methods against hand reproduced methods. I had these screen prints that would be intentionally imperfect, and then repeated oil paint areas that were as near to identical as I could get them. I had painted about a dozen of these paintings on my own, and thought they were done.




Then we had the idea of working together. To get started, I handed these paintings over to Gina. She added an entirely different dimension, and things became more than a simple one-two comparison. This is how some of that work looked by around '01 or '02.