To accompany a very recent solo exhibition, I prepared a statement and talk that tried to explain my choice of subject matter. The exhibition showed almost 50 examples of compositions created from regional, vernacular architecture. (You can see examples on my “Swatches” / gallery page.) Last week I came across a description of this kind of subject matter in a postwar American novel set in New Orleans. Here’s a sentence that repurposes the original description for the state of ruin I find in these buildings:
”It was a kind of building that had degenerated from something to nothing in particular, a kind of building that had moved into the twenty-first century carelessly and uncaringly—and with very limited funds.”

(from A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, 1980.)