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December 19, 2005
The Straight Path
percentages of reality
Too long spent sitting in a room thinking is not always a good thing. The monks manage it, but, to be honest, they don’t have as much to think about.
But you have to think, you have to struggle, you have to try to get at reality. My paintings exist in physical form, so there can be a reasonable assumption that they are real. But that’s not the reality I’m talking about. The reality is: The Straight Path. Anything else is just pushing paint.
A straight path from feeling to thought to action. Without let or hindrance. Or reference to the fucking past. Use the past, yes, draw on it – wring it out and take the good bits, yes. But don’t dwell there, it isn’t real.
White Head, oil on panel, 1060mm x 1060mm
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
Posted by john at December 19, 2005 12:22 AM