I wanna show you baby, that a woman can be tough

"Strength is to be celebrated, and that's done by harmonically distributing it." --Patrick Craig.

I think that's a good way of looking at compositional elements, and life.


As far as this, I'm going to finish it. It's supposed to be a post-impressionist rendering of a vacuum, using a variety of marks to reject the traditional hierarchy of focus and figure/ground relationships. It's kind of messy there in the middle, and the background just needs working through, but I think some of the mark-making is developing successfully. I looked closely at a dollar bill right before I started working, and some of the textures ended up being more influenced by etching than the thick expressionist marks of van Gogh, etc. It's almost paradoxical, but those two very different levels of control and concentration seem to come to really similar visual conclusions at times.