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Earlier today I watched an Art21 video on Susan Rothenberg. At one point she talks about how artistic vision changes over time. For several years, horses provided the lead to her painterly problems, but, at the time of the video, she was without one line of exploration. Just the way it goes. Sometimes you’re cruising down the highway, and other times you’re stopping at every vista point and rest area you come to.

Later in the day, I put off finishing a recent work as I found myself becoming too finicky and began to think of what was next. ????? As I began grabbing bits of cut paper and moving them around, placing the “usual suspects” on various-sized boards, and thinking about and looking at some past work, I realized I had a few different paths to choose. I seemed to be playing with the horizontal bands of color cutouts as if my fingers were on a Quija Board!!! OK…not really. My fingers made the choice: Back to layers of color bands. Hmmm. Am I being influenced by a few of my third grade students who recently were having difficulty with the concept of layers? If so, that’s great to see that, even when not making art, or even consciously thinking about art, some kind of behind the scene activity is taking place!

In Progress: color bands in the midst of a colorful mess.