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2:18 PM: this new painting, 42x48”, is inspired by an 11th c. li gonglin painting. it’s in an early stage and, for now is dominated by one color: a warm beige. as with il torrente, a story is being told, which overlaps stories told by 18th c. Japanese calligrapher/painter taiga, whose scrolls were the inspiration for my sound of a flute series. figures on horseback and on foot move across the picture plane, in the shadow of tall mountains. what, exactly they are up to is up to the viewer. they exist in a cascade of curvilinear shapes suggestive of animals, birds.
illusory city, 42x48” oil & colored pencil on linen at the end of my painting day today.
