Oilgraphing is an original process developed by yourself. What is it and how did it come to be?
Around 1994 I was struggling to find an emergent look to the work… a light coming out of the darkness. I wasn’t able to achieve it through any traditional photographic means and I realized that what I was really looking for was light coming out of an actual physical darkness. I remembered the scratch drawings we did as kids where you scratched off the black ink from over colored paper and I thought ‘you know, this should work with a print.’ So I took a small 4×5 print, covered it in oil color and did essentially the same thing. And there it was. It was very raw, very simple, but it was the first oilgraph. I called them oilgraphs because that just seemed to express what it was. They have evolved enormously over the years as I’ve become more of a painter. Ideally there should be the feeling that you are seeing a world seen and unseen at the same time. In 1997 I was lecturing on the technique when someone asked whether I could just come in and show them how it’s done. I was a little hes
