I’ve been going through my work from the past year.
So much change: effort, risk, experimentation. Painting larger (for me, 18x24” feel large) still feels like riding a wild horse.
But the small work, abstracted or literal, has so much more life. Occasionally, an abstract under-painting, reveals itself to be enough.
Do folks who pursue other talents feel as surprised by where practice takes them? I don’t know.
I just know this path winds forward, broad and inviting. “Live the questions now,” wrote Rilke.
“... have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”