1:04 PM: today is a brilliant day. i got straight to work on gaze 33, in a phase i always find exciting. it's that phase of becoming. neither the painting nor i know what it is. ever aware of my predecessors, my mentors, i move with the tide, allowing their wisdom to filter in how it will.
the past few days i've had some doubts arise about this series and more generally this direction. i posted the image of a 1997 landscape in gouache on paper of the baca grande where we live on facebook and wasn't expecting such a strong positive response. it made me question whether perhaps landscape is my real strength. but, as i write this, i realize that goes against everything i've been saying about how it's the painting; the integrity and juiciness picture plane itself that's the subject. not the face or the gaze or the landscape.