It's been a long time since I've added anything here. Longer, in any case, than I expected when last I wrote. I've been busy painting my father's wooden quilt, a project that took many more hours than I originally anticipated. Especially since, when it was finished, I decided to put it in my car and drive it out to him in Michigan. It was worth it, of course -- last I heard it is to go on permanent display in the Retirement Village where my parents live -- but it took time... I hope to get back to some more writing very soon though.
Today I just want to share a quote from Edgar Degas. It reflects something of my own attitude towards what I do. He said,
"I want to see nothing but my corner and dig away obediently. Art doesn't grow wider, it recapitulates."
In the same way, I have no ambition, as many of my peers may, to expand the horizons of art, going ever further afield in the search for something new. I see the same world as Degas and others from ages past; it's just my own corner that draws my eye. It is not very different from anyone else's corner, I don't think, but it is enough. I, like Degas, am content, in my artwork, to quietly recapitulate the world as I find it. It is ever new to me.
Today I just want to share a quote from Edgar Degas. It reflects something of my own attitude towards what I do. He said,
"I want to see nothing but my corner and dig away obediently. Art doesn't grow wider, it recapitulates."
In the same way, I have no ambition, as many of my peers may, to expand the horizons of art, going ever further afield in the search for something new. I see the same world as Degas and others from ages past; it's just my own corner that draws my eye. It is not very different from anyone else's corner, I don't think, but it is enough. I, like Degas, am content, in my artwork, to quietly recapitulate the world as I find it. It is ever new to me.
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