Little Red Truck

A photograph of a decrepit Li'l Red Express truck operates within a framework. Where I once would have treated the truck as a subject, I now read it as a construct — a site where color, line, and weight carry meaning I did not consciously assign.

Like a photograph, my work captures a single moment and lets its framework surface — the old construct underneath, the memory it stands in for. I work back over that framework intuitively, laying in new line, weight, and color. The reframing happens there, on top of what the image already holds: I'm not restoring the memory, I'm reading it again in my own terms, so it settles into something I understand instead of something that keeps steering me.

Little Red Truck Study #2

watercolor and graphite on paper

5" x  7" 

2025

Little Red Truck Study #6

watercolor and graphite on paper

8" x  10 1/2" 

2025

Little Red Truck Study #8

watercolor and graphite on paper

7 1/2" x  9"

2025

Little Red Truck Study #10

watercolor and graphite on paper

7 1/2" x  7 1/2" 

2025