at work today on illusory city
3:50 PM: more work today on illusory city and the first stage of a re-work of il torrente. if the sound of a flute series paintings are abstracted studies of taiga’s paintings & scrolls, then these are abstracted studies of the abstracted studies. by painting over the previous versions of these two paintings, which were themselves abstracted studies, but of Chinese 12th century paintings with guys on horseback, there now exists corresponding faint images which lend mystery to these two paintings in their current state. gone, for now, is the overall titanium buff beige overall color. instead there is an off white tone, which i’m liking a lot. more and more frequently, I see myself standing on the shoulders of archile gorky. his sensibility seems to be akin to mine: lyrical and always referring back to nature,
BELOW left: il torrente, right: illusory city
