‘Six’ represents a series of six minimal works. Each piece offers the same simple shape, a uniquely positioned line, and either a blue/green or vanilla colored surface. Each line comes about in much the same way. I start out very simple, spend a lot of time in a physical space and navigate that space via the synthetic--a board with edges and surface, to eventually register a line the equates with a bodily sense of space. For me the resultant experience of SIX is quite startling even when viewed in my small studio. While each piece holds a similar eddying line, the differences become even more obvious than initially envisaged, especially when considering that the differences all are, physically, extremely slight.

Brent Hallard March 2004