Post 33: How to make a painting
My whole thing with writing is not that I do it, but that I get to it, pause on the edge of it, and just dwell there. I think about the mystical “how” to do it. Which then makes me think of the “how” in painting, and the way that this “how” gets pulled through the entire painting process for me. (Heavy air quotes should be added to “process,” since using the word seems to imply more knowledge about what’s going on than I have.) The painting “how” (How do you make a painting?) is not a how that I jump off of or let go of as I get started, but is a question that sticks around even as some vague semblance of an answer gets formed. (How much is the “answer” that gets formed always just a guess?) Also: What happens when you bring a question right up to and then into a possible answer? What does the space of question and answer overlap look like? And, what is an answer that still asks the question that prompted it? Fallen flower and receipt paper touch ever so slightly Thinking about “how t...