Dennis Hollingsworth

Ochre

These paintings proceed as a series and sequence of applications and edits. Every placement of paint has a good and not so good aspect to it. By covering or cutting, I remove the not so good parts. Finally, there's a point where I don't want to change any part of the painting, as good a definition as anything of being done.

I assume then, it must be that such a painting is full of goodness.

What follows is a lunar landing:

While the lighting has a yellow cast to it, I adjust it here with PhotoShop. This is an ochre painting, lightened.

Nothing ever goes exactly, exactly the way I envision it, and I guess I'm lucky that way.

Forms and deformations. Corporeality.

That's why I named some paintings: "Carnitas". Not because I like carnitas Mexicanos... but because I like the direct reference to flesh. Carne. Incarnate. Carnal. Carnivorous.

Unavoidable, mutable, mortal physical reality.