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November 27, 2005
Black coffee and creative thoughts
Sitting in cafés is a Good Thing. Well perhaps I should amend that: sitting in good cafés is a good thing, I’m fussy when it comes to the setting for my musing and coffee consuming.
The creative no-man's-land of a good café allows thoughts to flow freely and lets possibilities seep onto the pages of a notebook. The fact that it is impossible to paint in the café means the paintings I think of are the best paintings I have ever done. For the matter of that the paintings on an Intercity 125 are pretty good too.
Mind you most of the paintings I think of are pretty good – it’s just when I come to stick brush in paint and apply same to panel that things get tricky. When I get into the studio the whole terrifying possibility of it all crushes me into a frustrated inertia.
Then it’s on the bike and back out to the café for more black coffee.
Posted by john at November 27, 2005 08:55 PM