2:20 PM: this is close to the end of my painting day, if not the actual end, since we’re taking our stupa walk in just under an hour. I did extensive work on canvas 15, which I started yesterday. stage 1 is no longer visible in the flurry of strokes and the newly collaged elements. it’s not as spare as some of the others in the polyptych suite, but just as engaging, I believe, especially when you get up close. the tokyo olympics final celebration continues to be the thread that runs through them all, but the dancers and acrobats are not as evident. the collaged bits of ink drawings always introduce that element of chance I so love, and create a delicious ambiguity.
the figures in white moving the large colored cubes about are there, as is the checkerboard background and the checkered pant leg of one of the dancers. but if you haven’t seen the rest of the series, you might not get what’s going on here. so when I show this suite in april, the 20 or more canvases will be distributed on the wall in a decorative pattern, perhaps echoing the checkerboard patterning that permeates all the individual compositions.
will I do more tomorrow morning? don’t know yet.
canvas 15 as it looked moments ago