| ABSTRACT I - by Robert Rodriguez |
| Robert finished Abstract I in two painting sessions. At the first forty minute session Robert’s collaborator prepared a mixture of all purpose flour, wheat flour, salt, sugar, water and white acrylic paint and scooped it onto the canvas. |
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| Using a wooden fork like tool, Robert spread the mix. Yellow, red, and brown dabs of acrylic paint were then squeezed onto the mix and blended into the painting by Robert with a paint brush. At the second forty minute session Robert’s collaborator prepared three colors of tempera paint mixed with sugar (blue, orange, and white). |
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| Using a fish line attached to a rubbery ball with tentacles, Robert dipped the ball into the blue and orange paint mixtures spreading paint over the canvas. As he began to tire, Robert’s collaborator helped him add the white mixture by holding the canvas and moving it back and forth under the ball, blending all the colors. |
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| Robert was skeptical about painting with a rubber ball, but described completing the painting as “a very good experience.” |
