2016  •  17 x 19"  Show size

oil with aluminum gilding on patterned, prepared paper

The artwork is 15.5"x13" unframed. The image is 7.5" diameter. I work with paint that is very thin - it is runny. I use it in this state because I cannot control the settling and unruly qualities of the paint. Sometimes I begin a painting with no idea. I play for a while, and then something will assert its presence. I pay attention, and work with the whatever-it-is to bring it into visibility. I had not thought about comets for quite some time, but in the 1970's a famous comet visited the Western hemisphere and I remember taking time to go out in the evening to see it. They are visitors that have their own rarities.