I have never been interested in the material presence of paint as a component in my work. And yet, in one of those great ironies, that very stance forces me to take an inordinate interest in which materials I can work with. Golden Artist Colors’ SoFlat Matte Acrylics have become essential precisely because they do not announce themselves first or foremost as paint. Rather, they allow the dashed lines and simple shapes I work with to become merely notations of color, laying sharp-edged and flat against the surface, and shunning any sense of the hand that placed them there.