4 October 2025

Tumbleweed: Began as a rendering of my wallet, turned into an exercise in edges, light, geometry, transparency, layering, and subtraction. One of the purest cases of “sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it” (just going to keep quoting Johns). this an example of the latter. Which reinforces the inherent instability of habit in painting, how hammering a single source or relationship doesn't move anything forward. But an earnest openness and excitement toward new ways to work around forms as wireframes might.