“Sometimes I know so little about what
the unconscious demands
that I simply leave it to my hands,
so that afterwards I can think about
what I have shaped.”
~CG Jung, CG Jung: His Myth in Our Time, von Franz
A painting is a presence.
Not simply that it has presence, though it does.
We’re talking about good paintings, real paintings;
whatever any of that might mean….
In them presence is an essential quality.
Maybe quality isn’t the right word….
Is a being reducible to its qualities?
Is presence something beyond quality
as well as number?
Here you will find my recent projects.
I’m in the process of migrating my
portfolios and posts from
Light on Canvas.
Portfolios:
While painting we navigate between assumptions
and accidents, and perception and realization.
This happens at its own pace and keeps
us continually off-balance.
The tendency is to see this as a bad thing
and “short-circuit” art
into some sort of production.
…
Paintings are footprints.
They show us where we’ve been
and point towards where we’re going;
all from within a deep fog
where everything is confusing
and maybe, we can see just
back a few steps and a little bit ahead
into the glare, into the gloom.
Visit:
“Sometimes I know so little about what
the unconscious demands
that I simply leave it to my hands,
so that afterwards I can think about
what I have shaped.”
~CG Jung, CG Jung: His Myth in Our Time, von Franz
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