mandolin has become celebration IX / by Philip Tarlow

celebration IX as she looked moments ago

2:40 PM: i used a light grey to start removing unnecessary marks & colors. scrape-it, tape-it, flip it, trippit, add yellah, brown pastel it, gyrate, imitate, playcate.

she’s beginning to have a presence. as the eye glides by, she begins stuttering a name; her name: celebration IX. so, …..

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BELOW: 2 stages of celebration IX

1:33 PM: after a few scrapes

celebration IX as it looked after a few scrapes

celeebration IX 32x36” as it looked following my first round of painting this morning

1:14 PM: continuing work on what started as mandolin and is now celebration IX, you might say i had a field day. thjis morning i cancelled my april 5th show in houston, and as a result, am feeling liberated. so it’s a play day, which is what every day in my studoi should be.