Composition if You Please

So I don’t know what exactly it was about yesterday, but everywhere I looked I saw composition.

Maybe it was the Ray Johnson “How to draw a Bunny” documentary I saw the night before. Or maybe it was the over-infiltration of paint fumes from a kitchen-cabinet facelift.

Whatever it was, I took the best pictures of my life yesterday.

As much as I love to do the backstroke thru paint on canvas, I adore photography. I think it feels like a ‘safer’ medium to me.

It’s where I can capture the world
as I see it
(instead of)
creating a world I imagine
from vast white space (writing, painting).

And we’re all familiar with the age-old saying, “A picture’s worth a thousand words.” As my blog entries tend to weigh in around the 1000 word mark, I can’t help but to wonder if through photography I can master brevity.

I think I might be done with my latest painting. I’m questioning whether I wanna go ‘busier’ with it, but I think, for the time being I’m gonna leave it.

I’ve got to get on to Sicily. I think I stumbled upon my Sicilian inspiration yesterday. I photographed several variations of the image that I aim to try and paint.

Will I be able to transfer it as I imagine? My sources say, “probably not”.

But my gut says, “What if you can?’