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December 29, 2006
Become the paint
or how to get the stuck tops off old tubes of paint
Well you heat the top so it expands a bit, thus easing the bound situation. And where better to heat the top than in the recently boiled water of a mug of coffee?
To take William Coldstream’s doctrine* to its illogical conclusions, after dipping the tops of old paint tubes in my coffee, to enable said egress, I ingest the dissolved and dilute remains of everything from linseed oil to Indian Red.
This I feel will produce a more honest and integrated approach to the painting, if not a nasty aftertaste.
*to paint the bucket you have to become the bucket and make marks the bucket would make.
Posted by john at December 29, 2006 01:42 PM