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There’s something to be said for dissatisfaction. Namely, it’s an opening to perceive and posit new ideas. In other words: dissatisfaction can be a creative gold mine. As a recent work came to a finish, I pasted the last piece… only to see that the first piece pasted (practically right in the middle) clearly dampened…

And there was this work in progress all set to be pasted – for months it’s been there – until I started rearranging and reached a point where I no longer cared. And at that moment, or thereabouts, I beamed a new idea. Old pieces got dumped and on with the new. It’s done. As…

The splayed layout concept was new and interesting to me. So I was happy to have resolved the procedural problems through the test model, and I decided to go ahead with the one with a dark purple center. Some thing was there or, I should say, almost there. After I laid out the newly cut…

Back to those splayed works in progress like this one: . The question has been how to secure the pieces precisely without the edges of the paper underneath the uppermost pasted cutout becoming embossed. (I think I stated that right.) I also didn’t want to lose the energy, the assertiveness of the unpasted pieces. After…

The wait has ended. Almost squares. Almost the same measurements. Repetitive. Almost identical shapes, yet irregular: that’s where the conversation is.

I like laying out different ideas to open up the possibility box. If I don’t have a lot of time, I can always take some moments to play around with the cutouts on whatever is lying in wait. One recent work in progress has a divided background with two color fields.

I had been envisioning a glorious two weeks of art immersion during my Fall Break. Time! Not evening time or weekend time. Real, uncrunched time. Hour after hour time. Time for those backlogged ideas to flow, gush, pour, magically appear. No. Slow. That’s how it went the first week. I had time. Time for critical…