A selection of paintings...
June 2005, scraps 2a-e.
All scraps are acrylic on paper, 14x 11.
Scrap 2a, June 2005
Scraps 2a-e are 14 x 11 in.
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Scraps 2a-e, June 2005
...were begun with a concern for and
rejection of what had come to seem to me a too easy habit. I wrote a
text to tell me what to do, and made the first scrap out of
the text--
Scrap 2a, June 2005.
They
did it better at the end of the 19th C., that over-rich
orchestration near a hundred years had taught them how to make, a
method of richness, a shimmering (meaningless) background of sound
that in my way too I have let become an entrenched habit in me like
it was in them. Lush, rich, subtle beauty—but where’s the rock in
the candy, where’s the hard fact of time and wear and death and
promise in all the sweetness of the music?
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Scrap 2b, June 2005.Young
men paint with brushes and exotic media, old men use fingers and
knives, spit and nails.
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Scrap 2c, June 2005Be
tough, know the wing is dark.
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Scrap 2d, June 2005
It is bigger than we who are only its vehicle in time.
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Scrap 2e, June 2005Once it
was fluidity and flexibility, originality and elaboration (and social
utility) that were the characteristics of creativity. Now, however, an
old dog has only old bones to gnaw and gnaw harder and harder to the
end.
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Click here for Scraps 1,
June 2005.
Click here for Scraps 2,
June 2005.
Click here for Scraps 3,
June 2005.
Click here for Scraps 4, June 2005.
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June 2005 paintings
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