Will Hafeman

The work is arranged in five process-based systems of chance that produce different outcomes or series. The processes become the guides from which pieces emerge. The results are paintings that are both conceptual and painterly.

Through pouring, throwing, dripping, and smearing paint, less control is available. Consequently, by not being able to plan the outcome of the paintings, intuitive and unconscious decisions are brought
into play.

Three of the five series involve and additional deconstruction processes to further inhibit the predictability of the the finished work. The only decisions to be made are in response to what the actions and materials provide and when to stop.

The entire enterprise concerns itself with the tension between chaos and order. The aleatory processes create the chaos which is then reconstructed to establish order.