MY PROCESS
For the series titled Cut And Paste, Stephen Sheffield culled pieces from a much larger body of work he began making on January 1, 2017, that includes over 800 finished pieces. The work selected was made since January 2019. He chose to edit from his most recent work because he is interested in its sense of immediacy, and its relevance to the current news cycle.
“I work intuitively before dawn in the solitude of my studio while listening to news radio, drawing from the topics from each specific day. Every piece is begun and finished, dated and signed on that one day, often before I see my children off to school”.