Monday, May 13, 2019

The Nothing Is Evident


This was my first plein air painting this year done early in January.  I've been ambivalent about it.  That day I found myself in a cow pasture staring at a small stream.  In  his journal, the painter Josef Czapski quotes Paul Valery, who said, "God made everything from nothing, but the nothing shows through."  In Czapski's case, he used the quote to refer to his simplified paintings.  In my case, since I was trying to paint something from nothing, the nothing is evident.

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