Moments in the artist's personal life inform both subject matter and context for her paintings, with strong line work and
delicate oils blending seamlessly onto naturally
grained wood panels.
I'm sure this is what Johns is after: the venture of thinking, as it tarries over the rules of its own
delicate physicality (the string, the slats), grounded, as it were, by the generic images of thought — the painted mimesis of the frame's
wood grain, the painted picture of a stellar galaxy, the symbol of the Big Dipper, the harlequin pattern, the word «BRIDGE» — all different means and modes of representing, of disciplining the riot of the real and making something meaningful.