DETRITUS #40
acrylic on pressed wood
5” x 5 ½”
2022
The Detritus Series is an ongoing project of very small works – technically called marquetry – made out of
fragments cut from the thin sheets of pressed wood material covering my work table tops. Over the course of
the past 16 years of applying paint to paper for my paper constructions and installations, this protective material
accumulated layer upon layer of stray accidental brushstrokes, spills, and random marks. These tiny “paintings”
came about from the cannibalizing and repurposing of this found material. My one rule, which I mostly follow,
is that I add no new marks.
DETRITUS #48
acrylic on pressed wood
3 ½” x 4”
2022
DETRITUS #49
acrylic on pressed wood
5” x 4 ½”
2022
DETRITUS #32
acrylic on pressed wood
4 ½” x 5”
2017
DETRITUS #60
acrylic on pressed wood
8” x 6”
2022
DETRITUS #50
acrylic on pressed wood
5’ x 3”
2022
DETRITUS #61
acrylic on pressed wood
6 ½” x 8”
2022
DETRITUS #55
acrylic on pressed wood
4” x 4”
2022
DETRITUS #53
acrylic on pressed wood
5 ½” x 11”
2022
DETRITUS #47
acrylic on pressed wood
3” x 4”
2022
DETRITUS #57
acrylic on pressed wood
3” x 3 ½”
2022
DETRITUS #38
acrylic on pressed wood
5” x 5”
2017
DETRITUS #46
acrylic on pressed wood
5” x 6 ½”
2022
DETRITUS #44
acrylic on pressed wood
7 ½” x 8”
2022
DETRITUS #52
acrylic on pressed wood
6 ½” x 9 ½”
2022
DETRITUS #58
acrylic on pressed wood
3” x 3 ½”
2022
DETRITUS #6
acrylic on pressed wood
3″ x 4″ X 1″
2014
acrylic on pressed wood
3″ x 4″ X 1″
2014
DETRITUS #21
acrylic on pressed wood
6” X 8” X 1”
2015
acrylic on pressed wood
6” X 8” X 1”
2015
DETRITUS #5
acrylic on pressed wood
10” X 8” X 1″
2015
acrylic on pressed wood
10” X 8” X 1″
2015
DETRITUS: #27
acrylic on pressed wood
5″ x 7″ x 1″
2017