[1] Motivated by a concern that the spheres of art and everyday life have become too disconnected, to the impoverishment of both, the IAP experiments with radically resituating the individual artist's painting practice, usually into the households of strangers.
Mott sees this as a temporary but valuable break with social and professional convention—on the understanding that money, while ultimately necessary, distorts the relations between art and imagination, artist and public.
Since its beginning in the spring of 2000, there have been fifteen IAP tours, covering over 25,000 miles, with stops at approximately 125 locations in 35 states.
In a total of thirteen months on the road, the IAP has generated over 550 small landscape paintings (oil on panel).
The IAP uses painting as a means of promoting, enhancing and celebrating direct human interaction in a virtual age.