10th month this morning
12:41 PM: after stetching a new 78x26” linen canvas yesterday & removing a few pesky wrinkles this morning (by removing the staples & re-stretching that area of the canvas) i launched into 10th month, named after one of the series of scrolls reflecting all the months that taiga painted around 1750.
before launching in and as i was having my breakfast, i was reading a book i have on the work of miro. it definitely influenced my mood as i started working, especially the way he interpreted the word originality as meaning “going back to the origins.” so he consciously “ejected perfection & aestheticism in favor of the spectacular, brutal strength of a voluntary primitivism.” (a quote from the text of Louis Permanyer in his book miro; ninety years)
