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DUDLEY ZOPP BLACK & WHITE & RED Please click image above for full view.
The Erosion paintings reveal my passion for paint and my deeply-felt
connection to the earth. I have always been willing to let process determine
image, and over time, I have developed a way of moving and layering paint
that mimics the slow build-up and precipitous shifting of the sediments and
magma that form our planet. In the abstract patterning of the paintings, I
am exploring the ways rocks are formed and distributed in the landscape.
These abstract patterns are also objects of meditation, reminders of place
and of the geological forces that formed our contemporary landscape. They
provide the viewer a way of penetrating layers of memory, of going deep into
one's psyche to examine our place in the landscape and our way of being in
the world.
My paintings are about time and where we fit into this present moment,
knowing that our lives are bounded by a past measured in thousands of
millions of years of geological time, and by a future measured in the slow
growth of organic life, an unknowable future of which we are the accidental
stewards.
The ink monotypes accompany "A Butterfly Careless," a limited-edition fine-press book of haiku by Maine poet Andrew Gay. In the spirit of haiku, which uses a defined number of syllables to capture a present moment, I have chosen to limit myself to three visual elements, the circle, the bar, and the square. Each monotype is effectively the result of a roll of the dice. The gesture of the hand is always the same, the combination of elements always comes up differently. A selection of the monotypes were chosen for the book slipcases, and others, as exhibited here, float free.
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