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In the Kitchen at Night

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In the Kitchen at Night

I did this painting last year and I am just getting it up. I have so many different versions of it, on different color grounds, and at various stages of development.

I remember I had something in my mind when I drew this, some leitmotif, but I can't remember what it was. I wish I did. I am almost always working with a new idea in mind, trying something new. Even when I try not to do that, I end up doing it anyway. I can't contain myself --- what would happen if? It turns out that that is why I draw, for the sheer delight of discovery. To just make a picture with nothing else in mind but to use all I know and have learned to try and make the best picture I can just doesn't interest me. The dynamism of something alive and new that I can't label and don't understand interests me.

God is never the same. He's a person par excellence. . People are never the same, every day they are different. I don't want to freeze life. I want to be in the picture, alive in it, discovering, wondering, falling down and getting up, and learning. The visual of living interests me, not executing.