Huge break mostly due to absence from internet connection - no big deal, writing in the wifi'd cafe down the road. Caffeine charged. Been working well after the last visitors went, had several clear days and a head full of notions. One finished - no up-loadable pic as yet - which has delighted me until this morning, when it seemed that the subtle and enchanting complexities, hard-fought, were rather simplistic and perhaps, horrors, decorative; plus the paint seems to have sunk. Photo to follow. Have been photographing stages which put some of the issues dealt with into perspective...
finished a little mythic anomaly which charms me too - another recipe for disappointment no doubt, haven't seen it today. Have seen the pic which has been my fight for three weeks, its a nude's back seated in a seraglio, with a peacock and a rat and a hand reaching out to be lifted or drag her down - contact with the dead, an Orpheus and Eurydice moment - wanted to call it, we were returning towards the morning light but that aint right, really. Bits have been perfect and Ive changed sections to match and then had to change the perfect ones, its like climbing a pyramid, I know I can get something tremendous out of this but then I always feel that and am continually dashed, half-an hour after completion.
So, business as usual.
Oh except have agreed to exhibit in London and Helen and Tony Othens gallery in Greenwich - September 2013. Sure I'm not ready but cant keep farting about for ever- three years on this new series and there is certainly a good choice of pix. By late 2013 should have a decent little catalogue.
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