JAY BURTON TRACY | Works on Paper Page 10

detail #170 (from The Ruined Sky), 2015

oil-soluble varnish on exposed thermal array recording paper
mounted on museum board
6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches | collection of the artist

detail #252 (from The Ruined Sky), 2016

oil-soluble varnish, digital ink on chemically altered and folded
thermogenic drawing mounted on museum board
4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches | destroyed in 2022

first studies : detail #113 (from The Ruined Sky), 2016

oil- and water-soluble polyurethane on thermogenic drawing
mounted on museum board
7 x 4 7/8 inches | destroyed in 2021

detail #225 (from The Ruined Sky), 2016

oil-soluble varnish on chemically and manually altered,
abraded, and scratched thermogenic drawing
mounted on museum board
4 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches | destroyed in 2021

detail #259 (from The Ruined Sky), 2016

oil-soluble varnish, digital ink on chemically altered thermogenic drawing
mounted on museum board
6 1/2 x4 1/2 inches | destroyed in 2020

following the discovery of chemically
induced redaction as a means and method
for modifying thermogenic drawings,
i introduced folding, abrading, scoring,
and scratching the recording paper
substrate into my working vocabulary.

permanence was not the primary
locus of these investigations.
transient states of being had
moved to the front burners
of my creative interest.

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for information about
the 2019 thermogenic drawing
digital conservation/archival print series.

goldsmith blocks studio (portland, oregon)