These “peeled paintings” are mostly made by the unorthodox technique of peeling the paint film from my own large oil paintings, then manipulating them by folding, tearing, stretching, etc. before remounting them to a new canvas.  This process literalizes the play of perspective, spatial warping and optical reversal which are subjects of my work.  Simultaneously, it makes the paintings look infinitely fragile, tenuous and contingent.  By analogy, the painting’s subject, the sky (or rather, our perception of the sky, our vision, our coherent world view, etc.), becomes human, skin-like, and in need of care.  In practical terms the paintings are either remounted to a new stretched canvas and hung conventionally, or mounted to resin-saturated muslin which forms a border around the more irregularly-shaped pieces and allows them to be pinned directly to the gallery wall.  Some of these began as spherical paintings which have been flattened into literal map projections.  The eggshell pieces are miniature versions of this process.