The Landscape Series: 1000 Jpeg Files and Word for Windows Text Files Pt. 1: 1000 Panel Paintings from Philip James Studio

The "Landscape Series" of 2002 to 2003 was made by Philip James Studio for Cv/Visual Arts Research. The 1' square panels were worked on flat, painting 18 at a time in 15 minute bursts. They were laid out on an old framed 6' x 3' piece which is also served as a container for the pools of colour washed over the textured surface. Two inch square wooden cubes were used to stack the paintings in small towers to dry out. Various factors steered the series development: reference to an initial colour plan, the load-bearing pressures on a place, tracks and crossing points, airflow, water, spaces and intervals, and the nature of settlement in the land. For cities, the factors that influences the outcome of the series included light and shadows on buildings, streets, side alleys and hidden courtyards, people, stores, traffic, noise, incidents and interruptions. In the paintings, the identity of place is achieved not by literal description, but as an equivelant found by coincidence in the passage of an abstract process.