at work this afternoon on illusory city
3:27 PM: today, upon entering my studio, I cast a glance at illusory city, which I began re-working yesterday. I painted over most of it, leaving behind a few curvilinear shapes suggesting leaves, which today mutated into shapes suggesting mountains receding. I used a slightly pinkish titanium white to paint over much of what I did yesterday, which I then scraped over with sweeping gestures impossible over the past few weeks because of the tendonitis in my right shoulder. i’m doing the exercises my physical therapist recommended religiously, and I think they’re helping a lot. yesterday after our afternoon stupa walk, I wanted to watch the super bowl, and dropped out the exercises. I felt the pain come back immediately!
while continuing on my taiga inspired track, a new element has definitely shown up as a result of the series of collages I made during the period when I couldn’t paint on a large scale.
illusory city, 42x48” at the end of my painting day today