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Thirty years ago, I started a large cubist oil on board work and for some reason, (not beyond my control, I suppose) I have not finished it yet; it is well-protected and still waiting for me to add those brushstrokes which will say, “done” and then the framer can add the last bit of “fun”. I am usually not such a procrastinator, but perhaps I became tired of trying to work out the “mathematics” of cubism? Another reason why I kept ignoring it, is (or was) because I am doing it for myself, and then the intention is not laden with urgency.
When one chooses cubism, one says yes to “puzzle painting”, because one has to rely on one’s own intuition (unless one is copying a work) to create the illusion by adding numerous smaller shapes to create the “diamond”-effect. I hope to complete this work in the near future and I want to see it on a wall in my vicinity. May it become a reminder (to me) that this way of working is not preferred. Perhaps, I have enjoyed enough isolation thus far, to have come to the realization, that personal aspirations are important, even if they are 30 years old already, because these insignificant goals seem to help us not to hover in the despair zone unnecessarily.
Please do not follow my bad example. Let me “justify” my mistake with a quote by Helen Frankenthaler, “Every canvas is a journey all its own.”
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