"I make one image - although 'make' is not the word, l let, perhaps, the image be 'made' emotionally in me and then apply to it what intellectual and critical forces l possess - let it breed another, let that image contradict the first, make, of the third image bred of the two together, a fourth and contradictory image, and let them all, within my imposed formal limits, conflict."
Dylan Thomas, making the most coherent sense of the process of making a painting l've ever read -though he also wrote that it looked 'preciously like nonsense'. (this from the LRB, 20th Nov., p.8) Interesting that he talks in terms of images. Stacks up well for me though 'conflict' isnt right. Contradictory and abrasive yes, but with an edge of longing. A possibility of being possesed.
Off to draw now, new model Patrice, as Ian says he'll either be good or just embarrassing.
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