looking back / grey 25 playground / by Philip Tarlow

3:43 PM: one more round & that's it for today. she's got an identity now .

 

 

 

 

 

2:46 PM: collaging painting & scrumbling have taken place. she is more aware of exactly who she is becoming, but still becoming. archile gorky has entered my awareness just now. the great armenian/american painter had a profound influence on deKooning and single handedly defined biomorphic abstraction for an entire generation of painters.

 

 

BELOW: gorky's portrait of master bill and diary of a seducer

 

 

 

 

 

10:50 AM: evaluating grey 25 and determining whether to let it be for now or jump back in

in my studio on january 2, 2016 with grey 6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7:08 AM: this morning i'll be playing with grey 25. playing in the sense of a cellist practicing as much as a kid in the playground. 

pics will be posted throughout the process.