Calaj Contemporary Art

The Lottery

At this point, still working independently, we began to bring our paintings together for criticism.  Seeing the strong similarities, we discovered the possibility of joining the canvases together as a dypticht, creating a random whole.  Carrying the idea of random into the next phase, we created a lottery loosely based on our common interest in the I Ching, the ancient Book of Changes and it’s paradigm of creative transformation.  This lottery technique left to chance, the pairing and orientation of the paintings opening a creative dialog with the unknown.

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