Deep Dive
If indeed any given painting is ever complete, I think I completed one today.
Because I couldn’t remember when I started it, I trolled back through my photos and then through earlier blog posts, and, whoa! This painting has a long history!
I first worked on the actual canvas four years ago, taking it through several iterations.
I first worked on the painting I completed today 14 months ago. What you read below is a reposting of what I wrote 14 months ago.
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What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
—T.S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton V,” Four Quartets
… I selected the above lines penned by T.S. Eliot as the quotation to accompany my senior yearbook photo. I’m intrigued now to see what caught my attention (way) back in the day, to see how early I was pulled towards those who could give voice to what I already knew but could not yet articulate.
Below, I take a look at a chronological sequence of selected present moments captured by me in paint on a single 30 x 30″ canvas.
first paint applied to blank canvas
detail
30 x 30″; acrylic, collage, ink, and oil pastel on canvas
abstract landscape
21 Dec 2020
first brush strokes of gesso on top of
At the Edge;
starting afresh
first brush strokes of a phthalo green blue shade mix;
starting again, again
canvas prepped to go in its new direction
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7 responses to “Deep Dive”
Lola, gah! to comments lost in cyber-mischief. Hoorah to you for staying the course and recommenting!!! When that happens to me—AND it does, of course—I am repeatedly astonished at how challenging it can be to recreate what I JUST SECONDS EARLIER had typed.
Thanks for loving the art archeology with me : )
I haven’t yet found words to express adequately the gift of the process of this particular painting as I’ve played with it off and on over the past 14 months. A grand pleasure—I haven’t felt ‘hurried’ to complete it, have felt mostly relaxed when it’s moved into long periods of pause, have felt fully engaged again and again as I’ve immersed myself in its unfolding. Thanks for following along and being eager to see where it has landed!
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The genealogy of a painting!
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