My Secret Decoder Ring

This will just be a short blog entry…I have started a new series called My Secret Decoder Ring and posted the first three images which are entitled, Lemon Sharpie, The Big White Mint, and That’s a Gluten!  The series is meant to further explore the concepts of playfulness and/or seriousness.  The images are all 1-foot squares depicting a tile from my kitchen floor with either food or water on it, in one form or another.  Other subject matter, specifically plants found in my house, are superimposed upon the image.  This is done in a way to create a rough radial symmetry, kind of like a Mandala. However, in the end they are also somewhat decorative in the way that floor tiles are, but with absurd subjects on them.  I think of the titles as I work through all the issues that evolve in resolving the image.  By the time I am done, the entire series will build up to something bigger.  The title of the Series (My Secret Decoder Ring) relates to the text that I have placed in the grouting-border that is around each tile.  I have used the Wingdings font, so…unless you can read wingdings you will probably need to decode it letter by letter.