Blue Squares Blue Squares is an installation of 132, 6"x 7" linen squares or rectangles pinned directly to the wall they occupy, the blue oil paint is hand made from pure pigment. Each blue square contains or embodies a memory, these memories are of my father who had passed away in 2002. ( Blue was a favorite color of my father's.) I initially created and installed this piece for a first semester graduate exhibition at The Worth Ryder Gallery at The University of California at Berkeley, the installation was a very tight cube, symmetrical and orderly. At the end of the show I re-installed the piece in my studio, allowing additional time and space to reflect more on the meaning and positioning of the squares. During this process the blue squares began to exist on their own accord in the fashion of order and dis-order hence becoming more akin to a Broken Sky, possibly my father’s broken sky? I look to the work of monochrome painters as one source for inspiration, Byron Kim, Ellsworth Kelley. I came to realize the intuitive, repetitive like quality of cutting each square, mixing colors and then painting each square had become a tool for personal reflection, a ritual in honoring, remembering and saying good-bye to the life of my father.