“From the mid-80s to 1999, I was working very improvisational, very involved with process and physical surface: scraping, burying, collaging, peeling, adding sheetrock compound to the paint, so the paintings were kind of like old walls. I had no subject matter in mind, but as I worked, subject matter would emerge. Michelangelo once said there was a figure embedded in every piece of marble and his job was to chip it out. I felt something similar: that there was a character embedded in my painting and it was up to me to discover what it was.” –MERNET LARSEN