4:09 PM: i’ve tentatively settled on a title for my exhibition opening next month, which is jestur, obviously a play on the word gesture. one way of talking about painting and drawing is by using the phrase mark making. i like gesture because, across the ages, that’s what it’s all about. yes, it’s all marks on some kind of surface. but even more to the point, it’s about the movement of the fingers, the arm, the body in making those marks. whether precise, like dürer, or loose & sweeping, like dekooning, the marks are made up of gestures rooted in the gut.
i think i need to re-shoot myself clean shaven, but i also need to ponder this title and whether it works. what do you get when you see it?