| Life to me is one big emotional experience.
It’s what I feel, that I relate to the most. The
joy I get from listening to a piece of music or
the pain of loss are all emotions that I am
constantly curiuos to visualize. What do these
emotions look like? How do I visually
express them honestly? For example,
depicting loss is one challange, but to express the feeling of loss is where the real
challenge lies for me. And sometimes it’s not what I feel that I want to represent, but
what I perceive my subject might feel.
All of this entails a constant self scrutiny during the process of creating. I am
constantly asking myself if I am making a picture look good as apposed to my real
intension to make it feel right. It can be too easy to rely on technique and follow the
end of my brush and losing sight of my goal. The seduction of a well executed brush
stroke that takes away from the honest intent can be an easy thing to succumb to.
Trying to maintain the integrity of purpose can cause me to re-do a piece an infinite
number of times. Each time I call on a primal impulse to guide me. And if I'm lucky
it answers. — john
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