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    It’s not like I’m thinking about op art, but I am attempting to create the illusion of movement across the picture plane. The connection could be made, but it would not be key to my motivation. Using color pencil I outlined a wide horizontal band on a long sheet of paper. I then…

  I remember having no idea what I was going to draw, til I drew a line, and then another. An outline of a torso! It all came together very quickly after that and became more intentional. A figure of clouds and water with the sun feeding and anchoring it to a dark universe. The white…

The move, from large oil paintings filled with interconnected abstract shapes and marks whose emotive qualities created a snapshot of scenarios simultaneously projected, to work that may be described as minimal, reductive, or simpler did not physically happen as soon as the desire was noted. I like the idea of saying a lot with a…

Working with color pencils has captured my attention. The light shining through the color bands of this sketch strikes sustained harmonic effects. Pleasing. With this pencil sketch I explored the effect of using repetitive patterns with slight variations in width to create movement. I believe that seeing a recent exhibition of Bridget Riley’s stripe paintings…

“An artist is someone who sits down and does it,” said the art teacher. I’m often confronted with a starting point at the far edge of a lengthy gap of time between work. Fretting happens, but I can’t waste my time thinking what “should” I do after that last work. I have to begin anew…

  blue. blue next to blue. lighter, darker, smaller, bigger, thinner, wider. differently blue. blue variations. each so staunchly owning its blue. the white? openings… I am struck by how firmly each blue piece possesses its blue shade. As if there’s no interaction with its neighbors. Illusion. Strong independent parts, separately and together, create the various events…

How did that happen? The red. Asserted. And the bars? Curving. More. Then higher. The sway of red. The why. Moving on.

Walking creates an arc. Moving forward. The swing of a torso. Time and space reflected. Humming. Leading. Opening. Color is the present. Similarly. Movement forward. Thinking time and space. Steady hum. Leading slowly. Opening. Color still marks the present. Intent. On the upswing. Angling for time and space. Sustained hums. Leading. Quiet urgency. Color makes…

An open and unfocused mind has its benefits. I now attest to it being a perfect state to spy two random images and join them in significance. In such a state, I realized I was making art between a heart and a tiny photo of my mother. I can’t recall exactly when I pasted the…

Isn’t that how it goes sometimes? You’re trying to get to a specific place, it’s taken you forever, you’ve finally made it to the right street, you’re so close, but it’s a one-way street. And you have to go around the block or blocks yet again, and maybe again. That’s the way it was after…