working on a 40"x66" painting now (3 more canvases that size stretched and waiting in the wings). the increased size makes me wilder. feels more like grad school.
i had stopped doing large-scale, expensive work after i left grad school. i could only see the path i was on leading to serious physical injury and a broken bank account. i went back to working on paper, working without color, and working in much smaller scale. maybe this was good. i had a renewed interest in working within a 2-d picture plane.
but now the work is growing in scale once again, though it is still (so far) consistent enough to still be considered part of the same body of paintings i've been working on for the past 4 months or so. the more i work on this series, the further i can feel myself moving away from what i believe are mainstream interests. but when i think about this, i have often not been interested in mainstream interests. i mean, i still love abstract expressionism, which has never fared well with mainstream viewers.
unlike grad school, this time i want to see what happens when i stick with the picture plane.
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