ano kato 50 as it looked today at the end of my day in the studio.
3:25 PM: today i was in a mood. you know by now, that usually means i’m going to paint over what i did the previous day. which i did, after flipping it 180°.
i used a light yellow with a little pink in it, then scraped & put it up on the east wall. scraping got rid of a lot of the liquidy stuff, but there was just enough left to create some beautiful drips, which i couldn’t have planned better. i was inspired to make a third version of the paddlers, with the 2 previous compostions i painted over the past 2 days faintly peeking through and adding, in my opinion, greatly to the composiiton, which had become far too complex. but it was compelling to work on, and somewhere in the back of my mind, i knew it would dissapear in 24 hours.
why are upside down calligraphic japanese letters so wondrerful? and hows about that upside down couple on the right, who appear to be engaging in suggestive behavior? actually, they are a couple hugging each other in the athens acropolis museum! the diagonals in this composition, by the way, also originate with photos i shot at that museum,which had opened just a few months before our visit. the floor is transparent, revealing the ancient ruins below just below the visitors’ feet.
i originally photographed the paddlers from a bridge in alamosa, 50 miles south of us. of course i loved that i was looking at them from above. but more than that, there was something in that moment i identified with, i can’t say exactly what. i shot more than one photo. i have no idea where that folder is, but i’m going to search for it tonight.
i’ll pick it up again tomorrow after our 2 hour morning trail walk.