For me, stripes are a kind of shorthand for movement and direction. They also suggest repetition and are literal patterns. They evoke historical, personal, and psychological patterns that are all of interest to me.
They're also super flat, and for me, adding dimension, animating them, changing their direction, switching between crisp and blurry helps me create this combination of different parts that don't quite go together, but I'm forcing them together.
In this painting, "Oxymoron," you can see a big difference in the direction of the stripes, but also some of the stripes are pretty flat, while others are animated. I'm really interested in how the work can be suggestive of something psychological. - Deborah Zlotsky
