2:27 PM: i did more work on this painting today, in spite of the poor light as a result of some heavy snow that moved in.
traces of the abstract collage i painted over can be detected. swirls of gestural marks, faint contours from the curved shapes of paper i had glued to the canvas....
it has, for the first time today, a real presence. a mystery.
this painting represents a coming together of my decades of realist work, my recent forays into abstraction, my study of 10th c. chinese calligraphy and my lifelong passion for indigenous art.
after a couple of inches of snow fell within an hour, the sun broke through at sunset.
