California sculptor Guy Dill arrived at our studios in the summer of 2000 to begin work on a series of mixed media compositions on paper that would continue his explorations in geometric abstraction, but would be a departure from his well-known sculptural motifs.  

We began the series by photographing the stones, the time-worn walls and other architectural details of our building with a digital camera.  After manipulating the results on Photoshop, we prepared serigraphic screens that were printed in multiple sequences interspersed with soil from Palos (Christopher Columbus' port of departure on his expedition to the Americas), to give the backgrounds of these images a richly textured worn and mottled surface. Later, in the studio, Dill prepared the compositions either by painting upon the printed surface directly, or by gluing cut-out forms to create the intriguing shapes that inform these evocative mixed media works on paper.