2:04 PM: as the storm approaches and the wind picks up, i end my painting day & prepare for our afternoon adventure at north crestone creek. while painting, i listened to thelonoius monk playing nutty. a-h-h-...he reminded me that what i'm doing with these gaze paintings are all riffs, not unlike jazz riffs. that's the best way to describe them. vermeer provides the basic tune and you take off on it, depending on your mood, how you slept, if you had sex, how your pancakes turned out.....
this one, just now, conjures visions of pompeian frescoes frayed and rubbed, gritted over time to a spooky echo of late summer days in the south of italy. sensual, raw ochre sex.
12:49 PM: today, as we are expecting an early spring snowstorm, i moved into stage 2 of my re-work of gaze 2. much of what i'm doing in these re-works consists of applying what i learned in painting the entire series. that experience, plus an ever developing hand-eye coordination, provides me with new moves, new ways of playing with the image. as complexity increases, so does simplicity and lack of attachment to particularly beautiful or successful passages. i think this holds true no matter what form your art takes; music; dance; visual arts; architecture...
i'll continue working for another few hours, until 3, when we plan on taking out creek walk, which was aborted yesterday due to very high winds. we're calculating that, if we leave early for our walk; like about 3:15, the snow will not have started yet. i'll post pics when i end my painting day. had a wonderful viber call with dimitri & manio an hour ago. they were at the theatre (poreia) where manio had just acted her part & dimitri was having his hair done in preparation for going on stage.