18 June 2025
Shower head: thinking about shapes and forms warping and changing in the life of a painting; realizing how important it is becoming to follow my own morphology, how I don't care anymore about whether forms attach themselves to premeditated content. Fluidity of form feels like it is leading to exciting angles on familiar motifs, or actually just that recurring forms are becoming the motifs themselves. The red stream of the shower began as another blanket, or, more accurately, a kind of a blanket/floor hybrid encroaching on a figure in a corner of a room. But that wasn't working, so I painted the figure out in a blob of beige, which led to the oblong oval shape that I thought might become a kind of Charles Blackman-style mirror until I rotated the panel and clocked how the blanket lines flowed from it like a shower head. That also set up an interesting interaction with the edge of the panel, a place to squeeze in the figure in a way I probably wouldn't think to otherwise. Everything in flux always until it's not.