Before I Knew Better (Or Maybe I Still Don’t)
I came across a statement I wrote in 1983 during my MFA at Iowa, shortly after interviewing Buckminster Fuller. Reading it now, I can see both the influence and the idealism. Some of it feels naive. Some of it still feels like a direction I haven’t let go of.
The Artist as Mad Dervish
A reflection on painting as a process of chaos, discovery, and restraint—where the artist begins in wild motion and gradually learns to listen to what the canvas is trying to become.
Facing the Blank Canvas
For an artist, there’s nothing as daunting yet exciting as facing a blank canvas. The possibilities are infinite; and so are the risks. My approach is to simply make some brush strokes or marks or splashes of paint and see what that triggers. I try to keep the process an in-the-moment improv dance between eye, […]