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v5- Often there seem to be two characters within one character in your figurative pictures. It seems that they are kind of engaged, where the mouth of one is actually the lip of another. A kind of figure ground reading of subject...
RH- Those are the great little surprises that happen. I don't think of it ahead of time. I just start feeling the space and that is whatever I've got. I ask” where did that come from?”. But that is the real discovery. I look back and say "I must have been out of my way that day I didn't think about it, It just happened".
v5- But you see it?
RH- I see it.
v5- You acknowledge that is going on...
RH- Sometimes, sometimes other people see it in my work and point it out to me and I'm like "Oh your right!". It just came out. But a lot of people see different things in my work that I necessarily don't plan. But sometimes I see what is happening you kind of
know when you are in an in a really scary and fun line. Those are the things you keep, that's a moment you know when you have it.
v5- So it's an editing process
RN- Yes that is a great thing too, specially with acrylic. Specially If I don't like it I paint right over it. I'm constantly snipping.
v5- The medium allows you that process.
RN- Definitely and that's also why I usually work a couple canvases at the same time because if I really want to keep going with a great color or just a feeling of that stroke.
v5- Do you set out and say “OK there are these colors and there are shapes and there are these line elements”... Is it ever that kind of academic or analytical ?
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