Blog tagged as vision

These one hundred theses are not rules for making art, nor are they instructions for others to follow. They are personal observations, convictions and questions shaped by experience, time and the act of creating.

It allows the medium to be investigated not only as something that carries color, but as a physical material whose movement, distribution and structure can be deliberately shaped.

This changes not only what can be seen, but how the painting must be seen. The traditional question has often been: What is the right distance from which to view this painting? My paintings do not have one right distance. They require movement. From far away, you encounter the whole.

There is a strange moment in the history of painting when one begins to wonder whether painting has already passed through too many lives. It has been academic, romantic, impressionist, expressionist, abstract, conceptual, deconstructed, revived and repeatedly declared dead.

What makes an artist? Not the ability to copy what is seen, but the ability to transform observation into something of one’s own. These ten theses reflect on artistic development, memory, imagination, technique, imitation, and the freedom to move beyond what is visible.