Some years ago I worked out a nice little metaphor for the path a painting follows toward completion: an asymptote, a curving line that forever approaches tangent with the x or y axis but never gets there. The concept of the asymptote is perhaps the only fragment that remains from my career in high school [...]
Posts Tagged ‘“Indirection”’
Asymptotes
Posted in Thinking Things Through, Work in Progress, tagged "Indirection", anne truitt, finishing on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Inactivity
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "Indirection", finishing on January 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I hadn’t worked on this painting at all in several months when my friend Jesse, who runs the Loggernaut reading series here in Portland, asked me if he could use one of my paintings for the website. I sent him over a few images and he settled on ‘Indirection’ as being the most congruent with [...]
Indirection Progress
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "Indirection" on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s the latest incarnation of ‘Indirection’. It’s coming along. The hands are not quite but almost finished, and I’m working on all the overlapping marks in the surrounding field, going for controlled chaos. They’re a combination of measuring marks, which I used to draw the hands accurately, and also too, as Sarah Palin would say, [...]
Indirection
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "Indirection", titles on October 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Coming up with good titles for paintings is quite hard. Sometimes I do feel like “Untitled” is truthfully the most appropriate option, and yet more often it feels like a bit of a cop out. Sometimes a painting is untitled for quite a while before an inspired caption floats into mind, lurking around the corners of [...]
