Neutrals (3)

Neutral-thinking exploration

• This afternoon I will burn a bag of outdated paperwork culled from a file cabinet upstairs.
• I discovered in a stack of stored folders a pad of lined paper with a company logo at the top of each page and have been unable to decide where to give it a home for future use.
• I don't have criteria yet for facilitating my decluttering of the green closet.


Painting-with-neutrals exploration

neutrals postcard start #1, resting

Neutrals (2)

Neutral-thinking exploration

• I learned today that pH stands for power of hydrogen or potential for hydrogen. If that information ever came my way previously, it promptly left.
• I encountered several lengthy interruptions in my plans today.
• My ankles are swollen, especially the left one.


Painting-with-neutrals exploration

Inquiring Mind Wants to Know; Neutrals (1)

Giving my 24 x 48" work-in-progress a rest, I plan to engage in two inquiries for the next week to ten days:

1. poke around with conscious neutral thinking to see what I might learn, and

2. poke around in my studio to see what I come up with by way of a bunch of grid-format postcard starts using mostly neutrals.

Accordingly, neutrals:

1. I pulled out the copy of Little Women I used as a painting journal while I was in Virginia in January and February, found some fresh pages, and applied white gesso.

2.

starting to neutralize book pages

On My Nightstand, on My Easel (18)

On my nightstand

And then she moved 

from shock to grief 

the way she might 

enter another room. 

Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife

On my easel

work in progress, 47 days in, 6/4/20
24 x 48" canvas

On My Nightstand, on My Easel (17)

On my nightstand

She didn’t think Jack 

had ever felt 

the coming and going 

in quite the same way 

she had. 

To leave, 

               after all, 

was not the same 

as being left.

Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife

On my easel

work in progress, 40 days in, 5/28/20
24 x 48" canvas

On My Nightstand, on My Easel (16)

On my nightstand

She took careful steps 

across the floor, 

as if moving too fast 

might set something in motion 

that hadn’t yet begun.

Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife

On my easel

something in motion!
detail, work in progress, 36 days in, 5/24/20
24 x 48" canvas

On My Nightstand, on My Easel (15)

On my nightstand

You've perhaps noticed
how window plants
wind and grow
toward the light,
pressing their leaves
against the pane.
This turning toward the light
has a scientific name:
… heliotropism.
Jung spoke of a 
'human heliotropism.'
The True Self
seeks the light,
winding and growing
toward realization,
pressing against
the windowpane
of consciousness.

Sue Monk Kidd, When the Heart Waits


On my easel

heliotropic work in progress, 36 days in, 5/24/20
24 x 48" canvas