17 December 2025
It's becoming clear that my process outside of the studio is just as important as inside it. I guess that has always been the case, but it's glaring now—the difference in the quality of work I create when I allow myself the space to cycle through the natural stages of a seed of inquiry sprouting organically versus just hard-headed, research-oriented hammering away is obvious. Painting is about striving to live with such fullness of experience and such attention to detail that the work becomes inevitable, because to hold it would be to block a vital passageway. If there's an appropriate balance of making and living, then the work itself will be alive.