"Fear lives in the head.
And courage lives in the heart.
The job is to get
from one to the other."
"And between the two
is the lump in the throat,"
said Gamache.
—Louise Penny, The Long Way Home
Naples yellow, Paynes gray, white gesso, a week-long on-again-off-again conversation, lots of time in the lump-in-the-throat space, and now a pause again.
Will I finish these compositions while they're still on a single sheet of paper separated only by painter's tape, or will I pull off the tape, cut the page into its four components, and complete each individually? I'm going to live with that question a little longer.
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