| Triptych An Installation of Two Paintings and One Photograph
Ken Corbett In my work both as an artist and as a psychoanalyst, I am repeatedly drawn to the accumulation and consequence of patterns. I am interested in the ways patterns take shape, and shape our take, as well as the ways in which patterns can only occur with variance; a pattern cannot be repeated without difference. Harmonies are to be found. But so too is dissidence. I have been working over the past several years on a number of projects, both intellectual and artistic, that engage pattern and variance: taking pictures of the blue sky, writing about masculinities, making small beeswax bowls, writing about marginalities, and taking pictures of the Provincetown bay. For this installation, I have chosen two painting that were painted at the same time, side-by-side, using the same drip technique. They are similar, indeed from a distance they appear the same, and yet upon closer inspection they are vastly different. Pattern accumulates to create both sameness and difference. I have also chosen to expand this installation by adding a close-up photograph of one of the paintings; this photograph while the same size as the paintings is yet another variation, yet another pattern, and yet again the work of difference created through repetition. It is the process of repetition that I wish to bring to the viewer. Through repetition, I set out to structure the viewer's experience of looking. I want to draw on repetition as it opens a mind onto and into the possibilities of reflection and reverie. The paintings and the photograph are 12" by 16 ½". The paintings are acrylic on wood. The photograph is a digital print mounted on plexiglass. The triptych is for sale as one piece. The photograph is available separately as an edition of two. -KC
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