Waiting for the future to come into the present
Waiting for the other shoe to drop, the next inevitable thing the new music of pictures
G-d knows the church made a lot of work for artists and architects and composers et al.
At one point Jackson Pollock took art to the brink of chaos. Or the world before it was controlled by art dealers auction
houses and collectors. Which may still be the case how would I know out here in the woods, the last years of my life.
And do I care? I was thinking about Larry Poons a painter whose work in 1960's was a huge inspiration for mr , his work
opens the big canvas to small regular shapes and to optical fields and after images . Kathy Halbreich saw this affinity be-
tween Poons and I. It's the overall style, emphasis upon entire surface . Poons besides the interactive colors in his paint-
ings builts up his comma shaped piles of vivd hues against flat contrasting colors. Making a very emphatic color experience.
The opticality of his work made me see the power of the whole painting surface activated, made present as intense optical
field not unlike Monet's red poppies in a green field.
No news from CO , wonder if Darsie and Betsy showed up there? Just as well my feet hurt from two openings to the same
show and it is a beautiful exhibition, good for Spring and really gives a person a dose of vivid luminous color and light and
asks each viewer if the age of vanity begets a critical turn of mind in pictures of sitters and pictures of stories?
of us about
how it is we appear as we do differently to different eyes.