Painting > Remnant

Working subtractively has always felt natural or good to me. a mentor once asked why I liked to cover then uncover as a way of painting and I didn't have a very good answer then. I'm not sure if I do now, but having given it a lot of thought over 20 years, I have more ideas and notions as to my motivation.
Erasing is subtractive, layering is additive and can also be subtractive in the sense that one may delete or mask something in the composition by covering or layering with something else...a competing strategies. Using a sander as an eraser is not new for painters, for myself I understand the attraction to this way of working. This piece about the changing nature of place, and locational identity.