Pynchon not quite named...

[David Morris]

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/13/arts/design/13WALL.html

To a Painter, Words Are Worth a Thousand Pictures

IN the beginning for the artist Jane Hammond is the word. It's impossible to
talk about her painting without resorting to literature (not to mention Santa
Claus, molecular biology, phrenology, Mao Zedong and the American flag). She'll
pillage anything from her eclectic library or her notebooks of names, from
those of pets to those of English castles.

The best metaphor for the method behind her rollicking, erudite, street-smart,
angst-ridden, encyclopedic paintings is writing. 

To make the point, Ms. Hammond passes along an article, "New Wave of Writers
Reinvents Literature," by Michiko Kakutani, the senior book critic at The New
York Times. The writers mentioned range from Salman Rushdie to the young Dave
Eggers and Zadie Smith. In Ms. Kakutani's words, they write "Big Tent Novels:
huge, inclusive, often mythic works that attempt to capture the chaos and
cacophony of the world through whatever means come to hand."

Substitute the word "painting" for "novel," and you've got a fair description
of what Ms. Hammond is up to. And that is to make paintings "as complicated,
inconsistent, varied, multifaceted as you are, as I am, as life is," she said.
She spoke on a recent afternoon in her sun-splashed studio-loft in SoHo, where
she lives with Craig McNeer, a homemaker, amid works in progress and wildly
blooming potted plants. 





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