2:38 PM: i just stopped for the day, after bringing hu 1 to an interesting place. the two musicians dominate the composition, without defining it. what i mean by that is that this is, first and foremost, a painting. marks on a surface dividing up the space that makes your brain tumble about and momentarily forget which way is up!. geometric shapes play a small but significant role in conveying this.
11:12 AM: you might think i’m a wacko, which of course is true, but i’m radically revising what i said in my post yesterday. july heat has gone back to hu 1. and i must say it has, thus far , benefitted from yesterday’s red madness! i worked hard this morning on removing most of the still somewhat wet red areas, replacing them with a pale yellow ochre-ish color & leaving a bit between the legs of the musician on the bottom, where i think it actually works well. and now i think i’ll go back into the figures of the two musicians & see where that takes me.
BELOW: hu 1 on 7/19 (left) and today at 11 am
hu 1 38x20”/96.5x51 cm. as it looked at 11 am