+ 20 November 2009 +
This morning’s swim quickly took me back to that place and time in 2001 when the swimming drawings came into existence. Then, as was the case at 6:30 this morning under threatening skies I found myself responding to the minimalist environment of the pool. The tiles, the grid, the lane markers, all of the pool’s features exist on a quadrilateral grid. To look underwater towards the deep end of the pool I could see infinity as those darkened bands of tiles receeded into the distant, darker, deepest parts of the pool.
A confluence of eight years of incubating images accumulated inside my head. Curiosity, skill and the desire to visually record that which I saw and felt during a typical visit to the pool opened the door for the drawings’ emergence. Gradually those images began to see the light of day. In eight years’ time what has changed?
This pool, The Burlingame Aquatic Center in 2001 became my re-introduction to the world of Agnes Martin and Sol LeWitt and Minimalism.
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