December 27

Clare Coyle Taylor's sketch titled December 27 is a compact piece of art measuring just over six inches square. Within this small square, Taylor uses a tool typically reserved for children, a colored pencil, to create a skillfully disorganized array of lines. This disorganization doesn't seem to find a purpose in the sketch like a mind that continually wanders without finding an end. Frequently they run into each other, forming pockets of gray matter, where thoughts are formed but soon forgotten for others along the line. Occasionally these pockets form a coherent thought, highlighted with a burst of color contrasted to the dull background. The painting is split, like a personality, between two sides: the top left corner and the bottom right corner. In these corners lay a complex of lines so tightly woven to form solid shapes--creating a definable personality.