12:50 PM: this morning , although i had considered this painting finally resolved, i was moved to do more. yesterday as we hiked up to the stupa, i had an unusual experience. i felt i was in this painting, that it was all around me and at the same time i was in it. this reminded us both strongly of the aboriginal cave paintings we saw in the outback of australia. for them, these were not paintings of a place; they were the place.
so this one seems to stand apart from the others in the series. today i refined the waterfalls in the center of the image, as well as refining and tweaking the lines representing the mountains and the trees growing on the contours representing the peaks of each successive rise. i don’t think i’ll do any more today.