This XAM work is executed on the back and front. As a behind the scenes person we often get to see the beauty of the back of a frame. The little snippets, hieroglyphics the artist leaves behind. This work is no different as when it was first pulled for the show we didn't even realize there was a back. Let alone an abandoned painting! The newspaper article is legible and the underpainting is a complete departure from the verso layer that is carefully laid out in one inch squares like a labor intensive textile that is woven one row at a time. The form is entirely cubist and a progression of ideas, but again we return to the reverse. And think by the time that newspaper was attached to this both subjects are born from the same moment in time creating a meaningful palimpsest. A challenge to put on display but one worth taking the risk.

27.5 x 24 in