Firstly, many thanks for the last post Andy, really useful. It follows on nicely from what I am about to say, i think. Had this post written in my head before so going to get it down without trying to address it in regard to your one.

I was thinking about what the point of painting is. I am struggling at the moment with both the what and the how, more specifically the what.

Yet I feel I am moving towards some clarity in my head over the why. I think, as I have waffled on about before, that there are certain permannet truths about each discipline. There most defiantely is for painting and meaning. Painting is about learning the difference between looking and seeing.

 We all start with a particular something, playing around with an image, with a subject, with a narrative, with the medium itself…whatever our content we have a particular something. We build it up synthetically or knock it down analytically. Either way our concern is not merely with aesthetics.

We are actually reaching beyond tangible reality. We are reaching towards those things which are not seen. The metaphyscial, the unseen untouchable zeitgeist. We are attempting to remove those veils of reality, stripping it back to reveal the invisable essence. If we can get a glimpse, however slippery, then we have begun to suceed.

 Reading this back to myself now and realising what a generalised list of statments it is. Shit, the painting aint getting anywhere and even the attempts to theorise it are failing. Still, just had a lovely cup of coffee.