I let this painting go for a song, and too soon. It was the start of a series, and a marker of how I tend to pull threads into a fixed image – a one line cipher to a general approach. Here’s a bit I’ve pieced together from several emails:•“Cigar Mutt 1917” shows a French … Read More
There’s a kind of Chinese landscape painting that acts as a miniature model of the universe, depicting the progression of its energies as they move through the five elements and back—an invisible eternal principle manifesting as a picture. Within these structured models there would be a small figure walking a path or fixing a net … Read More
I could call this my first painting—the first one that flipped a switch. Maybe not the first, but it was a turn. I’d painted hundreds of paintings, but this one clued me into the nature of painting. I was a few years out of school and stuck, not knowing what to do with art. I … Read More