“In the 80s I started working on pieces that had a panoramic format, and these culminated in some works that were up to 25 feet in length. On one literal level I thought of these as having a structure similar to sentences, but on another to what one might call chains of thought.

Increasingly, relationships occur across the gap between frames rather than within them. Representational elements are more dramatically combined with abstract or non-representational elements. I continue to think of this work as an exploration of the dynamic between object and image, and what one might call the space of narrative, although the term ‘micro-narrative’ might be more appropriate. I believe that the relatively minimal quality of the current pieces helps the work to exist on the fine line quality between ‘pure’ perception and formulated thought, between the implication of meaning and the seductive attraction of non-meaning. The meaning is not in the work, but in the experience of it.”

– Carl Toth, hand-written notes, undated