sticks


Paint sticks and the big black sketchbook and bourbon, alone in the parlor.  Fire and dog, hearth and home as the tired Odysseus; weary from the semester and its toll.  Black on black my thoughts; trading in subtlety, perhaps waxing intellectual against my better judgement.

There's something fine about oil paint across surface.  On paper, it glides and clumps and drags: roads, I am always on roads after all.  There's the work.  The work that is rigorous and hard but that is liberating in a way that nothing else is.  I tend to happen upon.  Yet I put myself there in the first place, and happenstance then becomes a constructed sum of intention and opportunity.  When we prepare ourselves for chance...well, there you have it.  

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