After the initial confusion, I decided take this as a sign I am making real progress as an artist: my teachers are telling me to do what they have precisely told me not to do when I started training as an artist. “Don’t squint” “Use limited value range” “draw curves”
Art is dialectical, an intricate balance of the opposites. As a neophyte, I had to train myself to isolate and separate the components of visual languages to study them and manage the overwhelming visual experience. Can I finally start to juggle the opposites now? Or at least attempt to do so without getting disorganized? A long way to go, a lifetime to go, but will keep at this impossibly wonderful task of making pictures.
As of today, I don’t have a lot of money. But I have physical health. I have art. I have love. I am content.
