June 17, 2025
Driving Home From an Appointment
Working Title: Tinnient Contemplation
driving home a few days ago
from an audiology appointment
on the first sunny day
in what seemed like forever
i got to musing
about posting art-in-progress
at my blog,
about the chaos layers
of mark-making
and first brushstrokes,
the formlessness
moving towards form,
the total paintovers,
the rotation
of orientation
from landscape
to portrait,
the messy middles,
the tiny tweaks,
the tentative experiments,
the grand gestural
boldnesses
followed
by
more paintovers,
more chaos,
more messy middles,
by
days and sometimes weeks
sometimes months
of lying fallow,
all eventually
ending with
a painting
signed
and titled,
frame fitted out
with hardware for hanging
and soft protective felt tabs
on its corners.
i wonder
do writers ever post
a poem in progress?
i’m not thinking this is
an apples-to-apples
kinda thing, this
painting-in-progress
to poem-in-progress
thing
but,
then again,
i’ve painted over
early drafts
of thinking-in-progress
before.
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offered here as a visual art anchor for this post
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8 responses to “Driving Home From an Appointment”
Thank you so much for your poetry, it really captures something so special from the painting process!
Whoa! An excellent question! I am gazing at your visual anchor as I ponder it. I suppose I’ve known writers (and poets) who submit drafts to critique groups or writing partners for feedback. But to the general public? I have never seen that! But why not? It would be so fun to see how a piece begins, its grand gestures, tiny tweaks, messy middles and the glorious grand finale!
I too find your question very interesting. Not being a writer I find when I do have to do some writing I have to edit quite a lot and it would be nothing anyone would be interested to read. I almost always photo WIPS because they are a great learning tool and I love to see how others handle their process as a learning experience.
Love the freedom in your anchor piece!
Keep pondering!
Your thoughts run in similar directions to mine. I do multiple revisions in almost all of my writing, but I don’t think they’d lend themselves to being presented as a WIP in the way that visual art is. The revision process is of great interest and often great pleasure to me but, still, I think, might only be of interest to someone else if they were sitting beside me in real time watching it take place. Still pondering : )
Glad I could offer you a smidgen of a feeling of freedom, even if only digitally and through art.
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Sheila! Music to my ears to hear that the rhythm of my words and the movement in my art start are in concert with each other, and what fun that you see the neck and bridge of a guitar here! Yes! Music everywhere! Thank you.
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