Seeing the Joins

Looking closely at the intersection of the four pieces of paper on this latest picture of Emma I found an abstract wee grouping of lines and washes. In working close to the canvas you can't help but fall in love with the abstract things. The topography of every painting is a random place of collisions and groupings of paint media that would stand as pictures in themselves.

I made the marks above and should be familiar with them, but I did not know I made them until I was scanning the picture. I would not recall them on their own. On close-up I realised this section was just as interesting to me as the image as a whole. I think it doesn't matter that you have a subject or a reason, as long as there is liberty in the act. I sometimes think my pictures should be, in sentiment and application, like when one is coming in and out of a dream. Like those dreams in which the protagonist changes appearance, but not identity, remaining the same individual, but very different from place to place, moment to moment.