celebration IX, 32x36” following the extensive changes i made today.
3:44 PM: mikela was horrified by the pink version i did yesterday, and when i entered the studio yesterday afternoon and glanced critically at it, i knew she was right. so while it was still wet, i rubbed out what i had done. since the underlying white version didn’t have time to dry, i wiped that out as well, which was a rather messy process, and started over this morning, using a photo i printed out of the march 9th version with the white ground.
it’s been a long day, but i think i got it to a good place, perhaps even better than the march 9th version, and i’ll see in the morning what more, if anything, i want to do.
BELOW: celebration IX as it looked on march 9th (left), yesterday (center) and today (right)
11:02 am: this is an evaluation published by salon:
https://www.salon.com/2024/03/01/like-someone-pulled-the-metaphorical-plug-dr-john-gartner-on-accelerating-dementia/