The Constructed Gesture: Works from the Iberian Variations SuiteThe Iberian Variations suite started around 1987. The original thought was to create a series of gestural Abstract Expressionist collages. The idea eventually developed into the constructed gesture. This was to make the material very freely and without concern for an image and then construct the composition by cutting up the source material that I had prepared and arrange into a gesture. This strategy allowed me to work in a careful and controlled way