Meet salsa, the next in a sequence of not-so-randomly-titled intaglio abstracts on paper on canvas, according to my colour rules...
[SALSA, 2010 - mixed media intagio collagraph print on paper on canvas]Salsa, being both a food (Spanish for sauce) and a latin dance or music, from Spain to Cuba (linking nicely to its companion piece, the painting Havana)...but it's all about loving rust really... and my craving of anything with a little chilli... chocolate, soup, marmalade, bread...I just typed in 'salsa rust painting' into google and curiously what was returned was an American poet, Jonathan Penton, who has two published anthologies, Blood and Salsa and Painting Rust - which I've yet to read (but I will)... within those few chosen words perhaps lies the bones of my next artist statement...