The Craft: Recent Epiphanies

I like a finished picture to have “presence” and I test that. If I feel like greeting it each morning when I enter the studio it might hold up. If, over time I’m still greeting it, on it goes to a more public place. I take pride in the fact that even with my most abstract works people rarely ask me, “what is this about?”. They often can’t wait to tell me what they think about it and how it is affecting them. Just like you rarely ask what a piece of music is “about” as much as you simply respond to it, so I would like it to go with my pictures. I did the best I could with it. Now it’s time for the viewer or new owner to take off with it.