Motivation

I was listening to Joni Mitchell sing "Both sides Now" and deeply moved by the transience of life . I have looked at life from both sides now, from win and loose but still somehow, it's life's illusions I recall, I really don't know life at all.

The paintings are stacking up, falling down and crowding each other out. With more than 30 paintings in various stages of incompletion I wonder if I will ever finish any of them. Starting a new painting always feels exciting and promising, then when it starts to drag on and on the paint gets dry and dull and blah blah blah I loose interest and it becomes incredibly tedious.

So I am pushing myself to try try try to finish some of them. Of course I am like an addict, and have to have yet another NEW painting started just to keep the juices flowing. I jump from painting to painting as certain colors are introduced. I think I have seen some progress, however small.

I spent the past month doing only drawings. Here are a couple of them.