3:33 PM: before leaving the studio, i cast the all important glance at genialis and found it too congested. so i cut out a piece of while paper, taped on and did some drawing in black crayon. i’ll see tomorrow whether or not i want to collage it and make it an official part of genialis.
genialis, 32x36” as she looked after taping a piece of paper over the lower central part of the composition
genialis, 32x36” oil & collage on portrait linen as she looked at the end of my painting day
2:41 PM: i added a few collaged pieces, went over everything in off while, rubbed & scraped it off and then went back in. i think the skylight i added with the puffy clouds helped the composition as a whole. abstraction, as the director of the albuquerque museum said in an interview, rather than telling us a story, allows us to find our story. personally, although i agree, i’m finding that figuartive abstraction accomplishes that even better.
what is the relationship these figures have with one another, with the compostion, and….with us?