Trying it out

Well, scroll down. It's out of context in terms of structure so each time you see a capital, know that is a new line break. This writing thing has got me choked up because I want to "write" so bad but for some reason it never comes to me and/or I just have a hard time with words. My paintings come out like waterfalls. Why not words? I sat down tonight and cleared my mind of any judgments and just wrote words. "Sparkling" is what came out. It really wasn't hard. It was very much like my paintings. I put it down on the surface alloted and read/looked at it later. It somehow made sense. I'm going to do it again tomorrow.

This one is different

I guess I could say that about each new painting I start and work through. But this one is vertical. I have never really worked in a vertical fashion before. I have always worked wide. I have always seen and felt my work as a sentence. But who says sentences can't be written vertically; like poetry. This piece was conceived totally in a stream of immediate consciousness and it continues to be worked on in that way. (I almost feel as though I should capitalize IT.) It's an absolute blast when you begin to really go with this magical thing/ability to speak through a process called painting. I can't begin to even imagine what is coming next.

Kris, a photographer, came to my studio

My good friend Kris Hundt, who is a professional photographer, came by my studio for a visit and we ended up laughing, talking philosophy, and she took some really cool pictures. She clicked while I painted. It was a wonderuos thing. If you scroll down, I have posted some of the pictures she took.