It's About Time - selection

To read the full essay go to Warren Criswell's webpage. in a new tab.

…I realized that two of my other artist friends, David Bailin and Sammy Peters, are doing the same thing in different ways, both using pentimenti–that is, the overlaying of images over previous images, recording the tortuous journey they took to arrive at the final drawing or painting.

David often never gets to that point, because the search seems to be more important to his work than finding whatever it is he's looking for. It's another example of creativity vs. destructivity. His inspirations have come from Kafka, the Torah, the Holocaust, Buster Keaton and old newspaper clippings. Each drawing is really a play like he used to produce in NY at the Abreaction Theater in the '80s.