Also, the rigid structure of the picture frame format seemed unnatural although convenient. 3-dimensional is a reason for doing it. To further elaborate, I like the fracture picture. Especially in the case of my paintings, where the image is fairly representational, you, as the viewer, get to examine parts of the painting in these little shapes that are quite beautiful vignettes. Much of painting can be broken down to its poetics.
Images are metaphors, color is metaphor, structure is metaphor.
I like the traditions of representational painting and I want those traditions to continue. Well, I guess I do. I guess in terms of my own work I use a sculptural element yet my interest is painting which is- color, line, form, shape. Picture making is not object making. I probably would have to agree that difference is getting to be semantic.