First Journal Entry

Having a bit of a crisis this week.  Made some work over the summer that is very different from the previous work. In previous work I was concerned with chaos and order, the body, and memory, respectively.  The new work is about….painting?  I’ve never liked paintings about painting, or I do but in the way I admire people who wake up very early to jog.  That is to say I’m sure it’s a very good thing to do, very worthwhile and all that, but there is no way in hell I’m waking up at 6 in the morning to do anything, never mind exercise.  If by some miracle I woke up at 6 in the morning I’d smoke a cigarette and go back to bed for another four hours, at least.  

Old Stuff

New Stuff

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18x24
Acrylic on Canvas

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Acrylic on Canvas

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18x24
Acrylic on Cavas

But I’ve made these paintings, and they’re actually good.  I woke up early one morning, went for a jog, and discovered I may have a future in marathon running.  So what do I do?  I like the old work, and it had a raison d’etre, something I cannot say the new paintings have. 

Anyway.  I set up my studio and started working this week. Made two new pieces, here they are:

I like that they are image and gesture simultaneously.  And if the gesture indicates a particular moment in time, then these are both that moment and the impression of that moment (left on the wall.) 

This week I plan on figuring out what the hell is going on with my work, if I’m continuing in the same vein as last spring, if I’m to continue with the work I made this summer, or if I can produce some synthesis of the two. 

Also, I read this article and thought it was pretty great.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/778661
  (you can sign in to Rutgers Libraries and search it on jstor, but this is the abstract)