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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
Jun 29


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
Jun 27
Inside The Studio
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