Works ...A PRELIMINARY STUDY IN TRANFORMATIONby Paul Henricksontm 2015

These several works selected from nearly 400 , chosen more at random than less, are arranged chronologically in the order of their execution and comprise an experiment focusing as best I was able to limiting , or accepting, changes in formal structure to ideas which stemmed from the prior work.

The idea came from two works a 7 year old gave me one Easter when in a treasurable moment of sharing with me who he thought he was gave me two works which he had executed within a 30 minute period in situ.

What had interested me at the time was what psuchologists had kow n and observed for some time that the representation of onees position in space , by some conceptual nature, moves from the representation of the ground on which we stand as a base line to representing that ground as an extended platform extending off to some indeterminate space.

The formal execution evident in these drawings were basically circles, lines and a back and forth, left and right, movement of the hand holding the crayon. These comprised a very elemental technical level of execution intended to tell a story of some sort.

But, story-telling aside, my primary interest was in how, over the course of time, technical. or formal, changes might occur which had no purpose in story telling which in both the history of art and in art criticism are of greater importance than the subject being illustrated.

There may have been some degree of difficulty in my assuming the role of a seven year old and any developing sophistication evident in these works may be laid to the fact that I am adult and one wih considerable experience in picture making.

Despite these limitations it seemed to me worthwhile to give the matter a try. In acruality the experience, which is not yet complete, has already pushed my functioning awareness beyond the boundaries of which I had been conscious before.

The series should be read as from the top (the earliest) to the bottom (the latest).