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What is a “Totus?”
I mentioned a motif that won’t stay quiet. It’s a mark that keeps reoccurring and I want to hear what it has to say. It’s a series of nested rectangles that seem to refine, shift, amplify, and perhaps try to open portals. it’s like a copilot with plans of her own. Sometimes to restrict, others to expand. I don’t know where it wants to do next, but I do know I can’t wait to be there for it. Here are some of it’s forms: These are some studies I did earlier this spring when it

John Czwartacki
2 days ago


Humans at work
I’d like to show here the behind scenes images and process pics from the studio. To enhance and explain various in-process works. Let’s go! Here’s something I finished last night Over the previous week I built a moody, atmospheric field with swirling clouds of Payne’s gray and titanium white over a mahogany ground built from ultramarine blue and burnt senna After it was dry I imposed Old Testament havoc on top of my emotional weather with my “Totus” mark. A motif that won

John Czwartacki
4 days ago
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