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From Studio Notes, March 2006

March 18, 2006. Montreal.
Night.

#3, March 2006

March 31, 2006, Lac Ouaureau.
Late night.
I
put the yellow “seed” in #3 March. The imagery became cum spot in black blood with vagina seed—and finished the web pages for The Introduction to the Romantic Idea lecture series.

April 1, 2006. Lac Ouaureau.
Late afternoon.
I put the black “barrow” at the bottom of #3 March 2006.

First, there was the formal necessity... something had to stabilize the image and lock it into the format. And equal to the formal necessity, the black was needed to amplify and confirm the image of the painting as being the most elementary form of life lifting above death.

Note: In his Chinese painting lessons at the Zhezhiang Academy in 1988, Professor Min said of such marks as the black mound at the bottom of #3, March 2006 (often in Chinese painting and calligraphy the seal or “chop” is used), “They are there so the qi will not escape.”

 


 

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