Gary Barton

“Personal Notes, Reused, Reorganized, and Redacted #29

12.5” X 9” x 0”

Collage and Mixed Media

2023

The artworks in the series I have titled Personal Notes Reused, Reorganized, and Redacted incorporate notes and sketches that I have made over years. In some instances these are personal records of information, observations, reflections, and deliberations, and sometimes they are documentation of intuitive or less deliberate scribbles. I take pages from the notebooks and sketchbooks where these were kept and fragment and reorganize them as collage. Then with materials commonly used for correcting or covering written information like correction tape, white out, and markers, I redact the text and image. I do this in part because I am very interested in the resulting visual form, but I also do it to expand potential meaning and generate a sense of the mystery and wonder that comes from personal things hidden or partially concealed.