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Brilliant selection Andy.
It’s like a manifesto. It is literally an approach to live by. The painting being a journey towards an unpreconceived end point. It reminds us how we need to make descisions as what to do, not justifications or full understanding. Those things will, to an extent, reveal themselves. All we need to do is act on the impulse which draws us towards both subject and manner of execution.
Tom
30 Mar 08 at 6:14 pm