All For Me? (2016)  18" x 24"  Fuse. Acrylic. Paper.

Moving lines burned with hand-held fuse into white acrylic coated paper.  A unique piece with the burns and flash marks defining the shapes. It has a cool energy and feels like it is in motion.

I named it after a few words in one of the Robert Frost poems I read. Flowers-Gathering.  

Unframed.

Primitive.  Modern.  Explosive.  

American gunpowder artist, Vega carefully places powder and fuses on the surface of the art, which he positions horizontally on the floor (or blast table). When ignited, first the fuses burns instantly along the cord lines, igniting the gunpowder and creating a blast, which then vanish in clouds of smoke. The result is a textured surface that looks and feels like an explosion—the art is blackened, charred, and erupted, arrested in a state of being created in a flash.

When the fuse is lit there is a moment of uncertainty. What will happen? It is at that moment that true art exists.