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April 14, 2004
just do it
Got up early, pulled on my painter's weeds, opened the tubes and got in amongst the oil paint, without leaving time to ask myself any of the dubious questions of why and how.
Just doing it.
To achieve the sense of history [which can subsequently be hidden in a cunning and dark manner] marks must be made and paint applied for a reason; a reason other than just plain picture making.
It’s not about sitting down and trying to make a picture, it’s not about colouring in – "today I’ll do it green". It’s about a struggle to put down passion, it’s about a struggle to stand on the desk and shout out loud, screaming down the building, shaking up the status quo, getting enough stuff on the panel to allow the image to live in an alien world of two dimensions, and challenge the viewer to look and look again [and look away even].
It is difficult to get the passion down, to focus it enough to fit into a system of tricks and colour and sticky paint, so that feelings might be felt. But it is the trying that is the important thing, the trying.
Posted by john at April 14, 2004 10:20 AM
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