On finishing

I have been told by three different teachers, in three different decades, that a painting is finished when you stop ruining it. I think about this almost every day, and almost never while painting.

“No matter what you look at, if you look at it closely enough, you are involved in the entire universe.”

— Faraday Michael (the epigraph for Supernature)

Notes toward the next series

Things I want to make next: a painting that takes one year. A small object that nobody can place. A canvas with one window and the wrong floor.

End of the stream — older entries archived in the studio notebooks.