Miniature and Multiple

I've just started a new series of paintings! The work is a formal return to what I was doing a few years ago - simplified and stylized female figures that are a little stilted, but the new paintings remind me of miniature painting or illustration as well. I'm including some images of the ones I have finished bellow.

I've been interested in the idea of 'repetition and revision' since I first read Suzan-Lori Parks' The America Play. I'm see it as the way simple iteration changes meaning over time. Restating or reappearing alters experience. I've never found a way to really address it through paintings always represent originals. Scaling down the size in these works allows me to address multiples and repetitive details.

2010. Lead. Oil, acrylic, pencil on canvas, 24" x 24."

2010. Lead, detail. Oil, acrylic, pencil on canvas, 24" x 24."

2010. Tilt. Oil, acrylic, pencil on canvas, 17" x 20."