1997-1999

This was the second series I did as homage to the work of Jasper Johns.  The ten landscape pieces (0-9) find tragedy in the post-industrial landscape and poetry in the weather report.  Each square piece has a raised, sculptural numeral centered, a "poem" from the weather report and a curved crosshatched land shape.  The crosshatching references both Johns' cross hatching paintings and a draftsman's symbol for ground or earth in a cross sectional drawing.  Lined up in order the pieces have a continuous undulating horizon line and follow the seasons of the year, a reference to Johns' four seasons paintings.