Sedimentary: Rock Quarry

05/2012 — 18″ x 48″

Acrylic, printed fabric, paper towels, spray paint on panel

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This is from a transitionary period when I was still painting fabric covered panels. I had explored ideas of a man made invasive technology on top of a pile of geologically historic sedimentary layers. And how the brief blip of present time can effect and spoil millions and billions of years of history. We are in a way very insignificant but have a hug impact.

I did a series of these and they were very well received. The various strips of printed fabrics depict change over time and imply all sorts of hidden narratives upon which people could project their own stories.

I had more ideas to explore and left this behind. Maybe I could reexamine the layers as parts of a personality and personal history in a tall, vertical form at that resembles the human form with a slightly off center square on top for the head. Could work in expressive hands on the body and partially obscured face in the square.

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After a long exile in South Texas climbing out of a nihilistic funk, Otis Woodcock has found his way back to the open skies and quiet horizons of the American prairie. Having earned an MFA from Miami University, Ohio, he left his ancestral home in southern Indiana, spending the last three decades between Louisville, Kentucky, and San Antonio, Texas, developing his Iconoclasmatic Pop Art™ practice. On this journey, an anxious recovering Catholic and cancer survivor gradually evolved into the optimistic existentialist whose work is less interested in providing answers than in questioning certainty. Today, Woodcock lives and works where the seasonal rhythms and expansive landscapes of the Midwest serve as the backdrop for an ongoing exploration of belief systems, cultural inheritance, and the subtle poetry of ordinary things.

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Painting of a rock quarry on top of sedimentary layers depicted with different printed fabric designs.