In some respects my cardboard paintings are similar to my tape paintings in that they both share an interest the transient, the vector, and emotions that occur around change. The cardboard box comes to mind almost immediately upon thinking of the material. Cardboard and tape also share a kinship due to their non archival nature. Both become part of the ever-expanding heap of ephemera. They are denizens of a floating world.

Cardboard isn’t one thing, of course. My personal favorite variation is called chipboard (paperboard). In an office where I worked, press samples would distribute with chipboard backing, and I would raid the trash to take quantities of the material home. It is a thin and dense cardboard which takes acrylic paint well. Almost all of the pieces pictured here incorporate the material that I gathered from the refuse of the office.