STEVEN R. ROSE
BLT Sublime, 2009
It is a piece based in simple ingredients, culinarily and algorithmically speaking. Pluck one scenario out of the Hudson River Valley School of Paint, dab on one romantic purveyor of said scenario, and proceed to construct one quintessentially simple sandwich. The rest takes care of itself.
What I find peculiar about BLT is its outdoor setting. My work is predictably based in interior spaces. I consider myself something of a mystic of the living room, a nymph guardian of the domestic emotional void, gathering familial tensions, strange outbursts, and incestuous musings. Or, rather, I am the indifferent couch given the task of feeling the touch of everyone’s buttocks. But, then, I suppose this is the challenge that titillated me with BLT—so often the outside comes in and mixes things up, but why not a little inside/out for a change?
