The rust, the patina, the objects made arise not simply from the sea but quite literally out of the sea off Bermuda where Dempster works underwater shaping his art, making his work. His work has always contained well understood accident and intent, most recently the contingent powdered graphites allowed to settle over time to give texture and surface to minimalist canvasses. And that work was a beginning on work done in Virginia and Bermuda, work shaped by the sea, mahogany and steel, driftwood and stone, some left underwater for months, months and months, worked underwater, some left in the air to age, then at some time, at the right time, the object adjusted in the everyday world, stainless steel wire or magnets added discretely.