Re-view

This painting is part of a group of small paintings I made using collaged words and bits of articles that interested me. Some of the text became obscured as I worked on and resolved the piece as an integrated whole; other portions remain evident for the viewer to ponder.

Whenever I include collage it is there for the compositional value as well as the personal.

My way of working is to view the painting I am working on many times over after I think it is completed. I will move it around the studio, look at it upside down and generally ‘Re-view’ it until I am satisfied it is a unified and completed whole.

Reviewing also refers to reexamination, reevaluation and the reappraisal we all do in our daily lives.

- Tamar Kander