Paintings take up wall and storage space. Image files, as I discovered this week haunting my backup files, take up vast amounts of virtual space. Years of making paintings, illustrations, and drawings, and I have thousands of images stored. Originals. Duplicates. Different scales and formats.
I’m aware of the outpouring of images I have to share vs. the amount of words that will fill the ‘Writer’ pages of my revamped website. For art, there are slide shows options and collections of visual projects. I write every day, but such a small percentage of it surfaces. Writing files and folders multiply as I add lines and paragraphs here and there like I would shade a drawing. All those words to reveal just the most essential few.
Is there something you quietly pursue knowing it will take shape later?
A fantastic conversation with Maggie Sutrov in Maui will be making it’s way to my Art is Dialogue podcast soon. Sometimes a conversation is the best way to bring those sketched out, typed out ideas to life. Enjoy her lovely quiet drawings in Markings, her live, hand-illustrated story.