6 June 2025
It's becoming about new ways to get the snowball rolling down the hill, about finding worthwhile problems to solve—the existence of Oblique Strategies is making more sense. Especially one I drew today: “Question the heroic approach.” In turning to the small with more confidence, subject matter feels much less important as it becomes primarily a vessel for new ways to explore paint, color, planarity, etc. Later period Serge Charchoune. Speaking of planarity, Stand: a synthesis of thoughts around depth captured in flattened space. There's also something there about purity and muddiness, that delicate gouache and pencil core surrounded by thick olive and black in a heavy hand. Still a glow, but less of a brightness/contrast bludgeon and more of an allowing rather than showing.