What intrigues me about your work is the evocation of the passage of time. Every ptg seems to be a resolution of sorts of some conflict or tension that predates the ptg and creates the stage for it. It comes together in the moment. Like a winning shot in a basketball game. It has this provisional quality to it e.g. you have tied the series but still have to win it. But that moment of the shot, a three pointer, is what the ptg is about. And for the time being there is a sense of relief(resolution). Hidden underneath is what lead up to that moment. What is between the lines is the past and the thick rich gesture of the lines is that shot that won the game. The white on white(blue on blue) the loss of the disparity between ground and line in the newer work seems to point to the importance of every moment.The final shot won the game but everything in the past was of importance. It about "being there". Presence always. And the will behind it. It seems to be influenced by minimalism but without the arrogance,the absolute certainty of say Ellsworth Kelley.(also there is a timelessness in Kelley) In your work there is coming and going,coming into being and passing away of each moment. Your ptg is not "about" anything.Which I think you are happy to hear.It is not descriptive.Nor are you trying to express your emotions.What does that leave? The structure of lines and spaces in between sets the stage for a conscious/unconscious dichotomy. Sort of like what is on the surface of the water that comes from above(conscious) and the hints of the hidden from below(unconscious).I think your work is about attention. Attending to what rises to the surface at any given moment. Maybe the lines represent your conscious attempt to "be there" and the spaces are what is inevitability left out. or cannot be comprehended. The play between what appears and what disappears or retreats whenever you try to pin it down. It is still the "time" thing because there is a recall of marks gestures from the past which are changed in the present . And new shapes that grow out of the past. Also each painting happens at a certain point in time and therefore cannot be the same as what came before and what comes after. In sum,it is not spectatorial like you are looking at anything that becomes an object for your subject nor is it about self expression. Like you were screaming about something. It is very silent It about moments in the flux of time where you attend to a play between seen and unseen. Maybe that is where the game metaphor from the last message comes in. It struck me that in my discussion about your work up until now I had left out the issue of color.I focused on the structure and gesture and what it meant,but color ...When I first saw you work I was touched by the color mood,the overall affect of each ptg. It was something you could swim in.It was totalizing but not dictatorial as though the different colors enjoyed being together ,they liked rubbing shoulders with each other.Some sort of crazy cocktail party. You walk in and say wow this is quite a party and after its over you are ready for the next.What are they drinking or smoking?I remember talking about Bill Thompson's work before.It is interesting to differentiate you and him at this point.Aint no one except himself at his party.You've invited lots of guests.Which can translate into influences and how you let them play out in your work. Hence the issue of time:these influences unfold in time and so do you and each time you dip into the stream it is different.You can find new guests showing up.I mean even the gallery scum show up which is great because we don't want to over design these parties.It's not a socialites ball with only pedigree guests.None of this hitting the viewer over the head over a lifetime with the same image of me me me . I remember being bugged by this zen monastery I went to because it seemed over orchestrated. One exquisite zen moment after the next. MARTIN MUGAR MORE