tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54098505096872366252024-02-19T08:57:16.587-08:00Studio 2846Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409850509687236625.post-38438914411889717752014-04-16T08:13:00.000-07:002014-04-16T08:13:58.969-07:00Moments out of time: A view from the studio April 2014
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There are moments that are out of time, steeped in conscious
awe when I am painting, when all the heartache and frustration at not quite
catching what I see is sated; all the trials and tribulations shatter, falling
to the ground as clarity rides from the brush as it glides upon the canvas
equally obscuring and revealing truth.</div>
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How ironic that in the obscuring of images and objects truth
becomes clearer.</div>
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The painting begins to sing.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">“Towards Consciousness Borne”</span><span style="text-align: center;">
</span><span style="text-align: center;">48”x60” (unframed) 2014</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">“Towards Consciousness Borne”</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"> Words sing from silent lips</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"> Shattered
in darkened silence</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Scattered into reality’s lost</span></div>
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Yet,
and yet...</div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> Resilient, in connected web</span></div>
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Vibrant
beyond all measure </div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> Awakening thy silent touch</span></div>
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Like
hands entwined </div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">In simplest of reach</span></div>
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Towards</div>
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Consciousness borne.</div>
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3 April 20 14</div>
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It is a dance, a marathon, and all my energy, all my
instincts, all my hard fought battles to learn and excel revel in these
moments. And I savor them before the veil drops and I am, once again, fighting
for understanding and light unto which to make sense, to regain sight.</div>
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How few can even, for a moment, feel and understand this,
the depth of all enlightened understanding within such isolated pain. The
nobility is in the carrying of these precious moments back into the darkness
like an eternal candled flame.</div>
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15 April 2014
JDW</div>
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I have been working to finish this last painting and had
promised that I would post the paintings once they were all framed. These past
weeks have been intense on so many different levels. We have all had to either
endure or embrace this long winter and it seems fitting, this struggle; for
everywhere I turn I see people trying to make sense of their place within this
rapidly changing world. </div>
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Comfort. Compassion. The reaching out for solace within this
chaotic rush that defines going forward. How do we step out of, as a friend put
it “our own movie”, to penetrate and touch someone living in their own swept up
chaotic swirl?</div>
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As I worked on this last painting all these thoughts were
swirling around in my head. I look around and I see the desperate need to
connect, to find purchase in a world so caught up in moving without recognizing
the purpose of the movement. But how do we step outside of this, if only for moments,
so that we can see and learn; understand our place among such disjointed chaos?</div>
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We can look at our personal history; try to understand those
who came before us. Look towards both the grace that lies within us and the
darkness that struggles within that is this dualistic contrast of light and
dark that makes up the totality of our being. Find compassion in giving and in the act of receiving. To
embrace both the intellectual side of understanding as well as the emotional
and spiritual side finding strength and ideas within both.</div>
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To bring a sense of the eternal into the now: this time,
this place, and this space, finally gaining a deeper perspective. To find the
realm of faith, not religion strictly speaking, but faith in all things, that
connected consciousness that weaves through all things: The inter-connectedness,
the energy that pulses and informs.</div>
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This course, stretching from time immortal carrying the
heart’s desire symbolic of the creative impulse that drives us to yearn for
discovery, for truth; that truth that lies within as a sacred trust awaiting
discovery. Within this gesture of comfort, compassion exudes and touches this
carried heart’s desire. Thus freeing, even in such abject pain, the soul’s
spirit to embrace this calling true.</div>
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Grace offers enlightened energy from God’s light, and desire
offers the trickle, the drop of life’s blood, gained in the darkest of night.
Together is the spark, the symbolic essence of our whole self. The recognition
that comes from comingling of the dark side of the self with the light of the
spirit within. Both are needed; this is the dualistic nature of truth, of
understanding, one we must embrace.</div>
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Within the painting all these elements come into play.</div>
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“Traces of Gifts Given”</div>
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The act of compassion</div>
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Exposed,</div>
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As curtains unveiled</div>
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Pulled
upon by weighted hands</div>
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Revealing truth magnified.</div>
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Golden grace in offering hands</div>
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Pours
from deep within</div>
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Balanced on other shores</div>
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By
ancestors touch,</div>
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Unbroken and sure.</div>
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These traces of gifts, given</div>
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Unfettered,
pure </div>
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Forming out of touch, loving </div>
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Forever
permeating our hearts, </div>
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Our souls.</div>
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Given, yet not to be received</div>
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Unsure,
without trust to be lost,</div>
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Yet to be discovered.</div>
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It is in this sacred trust</div>
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Reaching,
out blindly,</div>
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Contact pure, that desire, now set aside</div>
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Finds
grace within.</div>
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And in this, our own hard won truth.</div>
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March 3, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No matter how hard we try to
understand, to hold onto, to keep alive; all things pass, all things, in
completing their own journey, wither like leaves upon the vine. No matter how
hard we hold on in the end our hands are empty, holding only the transparent
mist of shadows lingering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is an ache in this recognition as
we yearn to hold onto memories shared, try to shield ourselves from the pain
and sorrow at the passing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yet, like Elizabeth Kubler-Ross said:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Should you shield the canyons from windstorms, you would
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Contrast. The embracing of all things,
the difficult breeds a toughness that opens up our hearts towards the courage
of Being. Being fully awake and embracing of each and every moment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Compassion comes from recognition. The
recognition of memory, the distillation of events already shared that can be
offered as a gift to the one who comes next, left like messages to be
discovered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is in this impermanence that we can
find release. The release that comes from the knowledge that no matter how much
we want to be of this life, this moment, this reality, we are transitory. This
is our one constant. Fleeting is our time here on this plane- a blink of the
cosmic eye. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is a freedom in this to not worry
what others think, to be able to plunge fully into each and every moment;
savoring the joy in being unfettered, being able to embrace the unknown and
find courage in each act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What we have to ultimately hold is the
finding of beauty within the storm of chaos that surrounds us. Finding our own
personal truth and figuring out a way to share it, to leave behind a world
better for our passing through.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As I continue to work on a new painting
I’d like to share an older painting and poem that is in my book: <i>Pause Between Breaths: Unfolding the Artist
and Studio: Art, Poetry and Space</i>. (www.jonathanwallacestudio.com)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Paper prayers tied to earthly arms,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Like veils across shadows past,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Across infinite spaces, reality,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Silence, Sentinels Cast”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 93”x67”x4
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">oil on
canvas with textured surround/ vines/ flowers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I share
this, as it seems fitting, this idea of leaving our prayers for someone to
discover. As an artist that is what one does, leave traces behind for others
to discover. Whether it is a painting, a poem, a book, music or some other form
of expression. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In the
end, we all leave some trace of our being here, if only in memories held.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Transience
is a given, it is what we do with this brief moment that pulls the misty veil back
for a glimpse of our truth and the capability to leave behind something of
value. This is our task and both our pain and our joy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Here is a
glimpse at the current painting that is unfolding in the studio in preparation
for my next Chicago studio opening April 4<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Connections of Intent: A view from the studio Part 4</div>
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In the previous post I laid out the thoughts written in my
studio journal along with a page as reference to how I sort through thoughts
and ideas in regards to the direction of the painting and the objects within.</div>
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I am in the process of glazing on the painting now. This is
the technical aspect of using a medium, a mixture of turps and varnish, in
which to float color laying down a nearly transparent glaze on top of the
painted surface. There is no regret in this process for once it is laid down it
cannot be taken back up or altered. Intense and highly emotional; it exhausts
and at the same time exhilarates.</div>
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Perhaps it is a metaphor for life: this idea of abject risk
and the courage to leap; to find safety within the knowledge that one has done
the preparation to be able to, at the very least, trust in having a firm
foundation to leap from; to then embrace and let go.</div>
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There is a drying time involved before being able to lay
down another glaze, and it is this aspect of glazing that can give a painting
it’s rich sense of light and shadow.</div>
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I had promised a further look into the studio journal, using
a section of one area within this painting, so here is a more detailed look at
the painting along with some poetry and the symbolic references:</div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">This page is from the 6<sup>th</sup> of
February and is a detailed description of the book on the lower left side of
the painting. It is, in essence a map of the imagery painted upon the pages,
the symbolic nature of each object laid down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">The images:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;"> God’s eye and the moon<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Symbol for transcendental consciousness<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Ohm- breath of God<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Tree of life with all knowledge upon its’ ever growing branches spring
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Words hate and fear
overshadowed by the shadow of the white shaped winged spirit<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Music staff and notes<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Pieces of poetry<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Elemental symbol:earth,water,fire,air<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Vesica piscis:center of two circles circumference where their outer edge transects the
axis point symbolizes the second
stage of creation (seed of life that comes from God- God’s consciousness began
from the 1<sup>st</sup> sphere journeyed to the furthest edge where it formed
the second circle)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">These ideas and thoughts compel me and are the
foundation from which I find excitement and paint. But, once again, this
information is only found by those who have stumbled upon the information in
their own studies, so they add to the depth of the painting but they don’t
carry the weight, so to speak. That has to come from the nature of being a
painter and the movement of color and light, shadows and objects and their
interplay that creates an emotional respones first of all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">spirit soars<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;"> succombing,
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">in this lifes choice<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;"> embraced into harmony’s grace.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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As I finish glazing I now need to turn to the next painting. When this piece is dry enough I will frame the last three paintings and then post them here. JDW</div>
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From the last blog I posed this idea:<br />
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Without turning
inward towards finding understanding at that soulful level do we risk being
consumed by fears and desires that lay all around us? How do we navigate this journey through our lives? That is the question.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">As an artist how do I translate these thoughts into paint? I
know how to write about this concept in great detail, but in paint you are
working with color, movement, marks, and an illusion of dimensionality…where
are the guides towards being able to deconstruct and unfold ideas onto this
flat surface?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">In fact, if you have my book you will know that I write
extensively and make multiple drawings of the image and deconstruct the
symbolism of the objects so I understand the language that are the objects (like
the words) that will tell the story. But I am still left with how will the
painting carry the message? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">At the end of the day, unless there is either text or a diagram
showing the relationship of symbolic reference to objects, most everyone will
be left to their own devices in order to understand the painting. That is where
the power of paint comes in. If, and this is always a big if; if I am fully
immersed in the concept of the symbolic idea and in a meditative state then the
very act of painting transcribes the idea through the color, movement and usage
of shadow and light to emotionally move the viewer through the language of the
paint.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">This is the stepping out of the intellect and into the soul
using the thousands of hours of learning the how of painting to just then, be
in the moment and paint. Not a bad way to live our daily lives as well, this
idea of always living in the moment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">But I promised a look into the journal in regards to this
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">January 26, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">The Duality:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Dark figure
rearing- fear (Looming, pervasive, encroaching, encompassing, weighted) the
darker figures behind the figure holding the heart and pointing<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;"> Grief
lies within<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;"> Doubt
lingers in the multitude of faces-a kind of hunger that consumes<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Light
figure-illuminated belief (Coming
out of the mirrored reflection: angelic, flowing, liberating, ascending) on
right side of painting<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;"> The
beckoning outstretched hand-feather tumbles from the hand,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;"> lightweight, symbol of hope’s wing<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">The hand that
holds illuminating light (energy)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Illuminating
Truth-that energetic consciousness that liberates us into our purpose<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">The twin trees:
through the forest we must travel-that place out of nature that loosens the
mind and reconnects us back to the elemental. Shadows linger, but there is a
glow of hope<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Mirrors:
illuminated truth and the “seeing hand” (the portal that allows the body to
jump into the next existence, the spiritual consciousness)- the smaller mirror
the figure is pointing to<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Larger mirror:
reflecting out the reality that surrounds, but also an emotional essence<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Book of
Truth-knowledge written as a guide<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Compass<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Clock: Time
fragmented lost almost, discarded (lower right, discarded)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Masks
discarded-the stripping back of the layers that protect us until we find our
true selves<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Spirits hover
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Behind the
lighter angelic figure flow the ever-connected ancestors that await our call to
help, to guide. We learn from the past in order to move into the future all the
while living always in the Now…<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Beyond the
figure is the narcissistic figure-frozen in bending stare upon ego’s reflection-seen
in the background<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Orchids-balance
of nature’s power to evoke beauty that transcends all mindless chaotic thought<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">These are some
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Connections of Intent: A view from the studio Part 2</div>
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The placement of objects leads to movement, which in turn
hopefully leads to an emotional connection. It is by turns that the painting
begins to take form within the context of content. All the while there is the
act of marking, of laying down of brush strokes, which speaks to the action of
painting and the making of a two dimensional object reflecting a three
dimensional or even four dimensional space; the fourth being the space within
one’s concept of thought and emotion that leads one into that spiritual consciousness
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Does painting have to have this connection to emotion, to
ideas, to being about something? Of course not. But as I have stated before,
this to me is not as compelling and, for me, holds little interest.</div>
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Painting is an illusion and within this illusion is another
painted illusion; a dreamscape that is the entry into the drama that unfolds
within the symbolic placement of objects within the painted space.</div>
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So what is the intention and how is it connected with the
painting “Ancient Gates”? Here is the poem that started this new painting:</div>
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<i>Within ego’s gaze<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>January 25, 2014<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">And from “Ancient Gates”</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">The soul’s
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;"> From
ancient need, left unquenchable,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;"> Discarded,
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;"> Tenuous
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;"> Fibrous
light forever pulsing, towards<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">(The full poem is in the previous post).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Purpose and direction. The intention of being and the soul’s purchase.
How do we unravel our deepest intention and purpose? And who guides this
process? These questions are directed by our histories and how we were raised
to think and feel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Without turning inward towards finding understanding at that
soulful level do we risk being consumed by fears and desires that lay all
around us? How do we navigate this
journey through our lives? That is
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I have begun working on new paintings after setting aside
“The Dreamer’s Requiem” to dry so that I can frame it and “In Silent Touch, My Purchase Seen”.
Beginning new work is intense and very physical, especially since I like to
begin more than one painting. In this case, I actually have begun four new
canvases over a two day period, three of which you can see here.</div>
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The flushing out of the theme is very fluid and one that I
might share later on in the next post.
What I wanted to share today is a painting from ten years ago, which you
can find in my book Pause Between Breaths (see jonathanwallacestudio.com). </div>
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“Ancient Gates” 87”x63”
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The
soul’s purchase<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> From
ancient need, left unquenchable,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Discarded,
unfulfilled. Compelling upon<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Tenuous
balance this continuous thread,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Fibrous
light forever pulsing, towards<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Future
unknown.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Ancient
Gods haunt this hallowed grove,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Carved
in wood immortal stand<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Time
forever traveling towards haunted release.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Selves
linger mute in shadowed tomb,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Knowing
always thy past to bring, in this,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Connection
gained, sonorous note.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Yet denied, caution
abandoned, onward stumbling blind<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> And
deaf to heralded song, lamenting, tired I long<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> For
purchase found.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Connection, undying source, river
coursing<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Through all eternity, ancient need in limbs bowed stretched <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Forever
towards heaven’s crown.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> My
body rough, driven to seek, fallen in moment’s pause<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Upon
ancient gates, and graceful, thy release matched<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> By
winged light,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Energetic
form held deep, pulsing invisible hands<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Hold
tight, bind myself to thee.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> And I,
rejoice, struck in awe, seeing, finally beyond the need<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Unburdened,
falling unto myself, lineage unbroken, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Silent,
unwavering, they stand,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Entranced,
now exposed, hands offered,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Knowledge
revealed, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Ancestral steps, without peril, no
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<i><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #999999;"> November
25, 2003</span><span style="color: #444444;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i><br />
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<i>Connections. A decade apart yet connected. The question you have to ask yourself is how? What does each of these pieces draw from? Physicality, intent, emotions...?</i><br />
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<i>This is what I'd like to share as I progress into this new painting. JDW</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"Great leaps in consciousness result from
surrendering oneself to God at great depth" JDW<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Recently
I have been thinking a lot about connections, how we make them, what is
authentic, how do we strengthen those bonds and keep them true. The life of the
creative mind, from my perspective, naturally leans towards long periods of
introspection. Perhaps from this dialogue that is required within oneself we
quickly realize that we must face our Truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For
each of us this is a different path. This is why we tend to become isolated as
artists. As we try to pass between
the twin guardians of desire and fear to find this ephemeral truth we struggle
alone along a path that is uniquely ours. These are the gifts buried deep
within our soul patiently awaiting the moment of reconciliation. These truths
that bring to light, out of the nights’ long embrace, like a candle flame that
flickers in staggering relief upon shadowed veil, the reconciliation of a
deeper knowledge. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">There
is a price to be paid for this unburdening, perhaps only the afore mentioned
isolation, but for some it is the unveiling of secrets long protected that must
be unearthed, exposed, in order to come to their personal truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This idea of surrendering oneself at great depths,
how do we do this? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For me as an observer and as a painter I see common
threads to be pulled, an unveiling of sorts, that then I can sort through to
find a piece that I can identify with. Once found I can tap into a universal
consciousness and letting go of my ego, apply paint to canvas in a truly
personal way. After deep exploration
I hope then that these brush strokes, objects, symbols and color and movement
translate into paint transforming into something universal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We
have no choice in what God reveals to each of us. However it is of our choosing
whom we reveal these sacred gifts to and how we go about it. This is our sacred
task, the sharing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And
in this, connections are made and gifts are given.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It is only with the
knowledge invisible<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> that dwells within the fringes torn, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Whispers in the deepest of memories held<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> exposing the infinite fabric of dreams,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Stuttering
in languid thought<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> that
I, now, find purchase<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Within
the dreaming of language borne. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">JDW January 24, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I have been thinking a lot about inspiration, about success,
about the constraints we put on ourselves as we travel throughout our lives. As
I approach 63 years I look at my life that I have lived, mostly outside of
convention, certainly not following the norm in accepted ways of having a
career, and in some minds I have failed to achieve success. </div>
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Surely this has been brought home by the advent of social media,
which allows one to look into the world, in my case, the art world and find out
what I am not doing or what I have missed or am missing. This media has allowed
me to write this blog and hope that it gets out to those who enjoy the musings,
the glimpses into my painting world; and for that I am grateful.</div>
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But it also pushes against the life that I have lived and
continue to live and causes an ache for something artificial at best. Don’t get
me wrong, everyone wants their work in prestigous collections and museums, but
that is not why I paint. Then I thought about something Thomas Merton wrote,
something I came across years ago when I was reading his journals. </div>
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<i>“Who can free himself
from achievement and from fame, descend and be lost amid the masses of men? He
will flow like the Tao unseen. Such is the perfect man. His boat is empty.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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To live without getting swept away by something outside ones
self, to find a way to nurture our inner voice and still be a part of this
life, that is the key. To flow within and navigate these tumultuous waters. To
live not in the past, nor in the future, but in this moment always. That, to
me, is the boat empty, always capable of filling, of experiencing life fully in
the now.</div>
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It is enough to paint.</div>
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I posted the update photo below a couple of nights ago on my
Facebook page and got back responses that reminded me that we all strive to
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I am blessed by the ability to create something out of a
blank canvas and paint and if I am diligent in my reflection, in my prayer as I
paint, I can transcend the ordinary for those brief moments and the result is
an illusion come to life; a song in paint.</div>
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We all have a need to connect and I think we all want to
inspire something, to provoke a reaction, whether it be a smile, a comment, a
hug, even a silence; we yearn for this connection. As a painter I hope for that
silent sense of awe in that moment of recognition that opens the door deeply
into ones heart, ones soul. A big task that only seems to happen when I get my
mind, my ego, out of the way and utilize the hundred’s of thousands of hours
honing my craft by letting go and transcending, finding that illusive inspiration
we all so crave.</div>
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Here is the painting that I have been working on these past
two months. It is about that dreaming state where we let go, where we envision
our better selves, where we transform from a ego’d, narcissistic mind into an
energetic consciousness, a spirit based soul that lets go and embraces that
illuminated truth that waits for our recognition. Born from hope, nurtured by
those who have gone before us, freed from the shackles of the past and the
future, alive in this moment created out of the dreamer’s requiem, it awakens
our deeply held need to be, to awaken and to love.</div>
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This is success. This is inspiration for me. To embrace
one’s better self and awaken into one’s purpose. It makes no difference what
convention says, what is deemed as the proper way to navigate ones life. Step
out side of convention and jump off the abyss that holds you back from being
truly awake into your authentic life and let the convention be damned.</div>
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“The Dreamer’s Requiem” 68”x80” in progress 2014 </div>
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JDW January
12, 2014</div>
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piece for over two months. I am in
the glazing stages, a process of layering translucent color upon color to
achieve the light that my paintings hold. It is a process that, if done
incorrectly, ruins the painting completely. It is intense and exhausting
emotionally but gives me such joy when I step back from a canvas and see that I
maintained my faith and held true.</span><!--EndFragment-->
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“In Silent Touch My Purchase Seen”</div>
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84”x60” oil on canvas 2013</div>
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Disparate</div>
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Though
they be</div>
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Distant,
unimaginable, yet</div>
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Divine
in silent touch</div>
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Upon
each singular moment</div>
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In
this, the tenuous convention</div>
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Trust,
found, deep within to be.</div>
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November
20, 2013</div>
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This painting comes out of the idea of finding purchase
within this chaotic life, of finding a quiet balance, a quiet space within.
Again, from my journal:</div>
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There are many gates that open upon this hill, this mountain
that we all ascend towards understanding, towards enlightenment. Journeys that
take one far and wide, to search, to struggle to find purchase and gain hope.
It is this, to find that singular moment, that fragment, that glimpse that
becomes the key that unlocks the gate into the garden of impassioned
understanding free from convention and traditional thinking.</div>
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Angelic warriors, ancestors, those who have gone before,
line up to offer solace, a shimmering glance of hope; a piece of illuminating
light. This is the gift offered and one received. This is the purchase found
that gains us balance as we continue upon this ascended path. </div>
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It is in this act of transcending that common value, of
stepping outside of the humaneness, rejecting the chaos that surrounds and
consumes us, even for brief moments. In this we find a quiet strength and a
glimmer of the truth that we hold inside. </div>
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December 6, 2013</div>
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The next step is to frame this piece so I can see it as it
will be when finished. Then after long hours of contemplation finish the
glazing even as I begin the next canvas.</div>
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JDW</div>
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From my journal:</div>
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She sits, stunned into deathly silence, hands between
tightened thighs, kneeling upon shimmering floor strewn with hopes alive.
Pensive, head cocked slightly towards a sound not heard, her eyes travel
upwards and ponder what lies ahead.</div>
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Spirits fly upon the night and whisper keys to open
locks…locks locked tight.</div>
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In the distance 3 figures silhouetted by fires back lit in
arched grove of which wonders framed. One holding the other in comfort-like
mother to child while the second reaches out in shocked silence. </div>
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The night dances with spirit shapes. Time no longer relevant
or linear. Nothing makes sense and all is chaotic. Yet…the figure remains in
prayerful pose, contemplating, almost there, almost cognizant of purpose known.
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October 31, 2013</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">How to find purchase within
these words and transform them into paint, that is the quest each day as I
struggle to comprehend how these disparate shapes will unify into a whole. This
is the greater struggle within my painting world. To trust that inner voice and
where it will take me, confident in my hands need to lay paint stoke upon
stroke until out of this dense language form is revealed. </span></div>
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Time seems to have just flown this year of transition, 2013.
Here we are in the last month before the page turns and we usher in new hopes
as symbolized by the turning of the calendar. Another year escapes our grasp. As I look around I see how time has
taken us prisoner, turning us away from quiet thoughts as we are now in
constant contact, always in demand. A product of advances technologically,
which we eagerly embrace, but at what cost if in the process we get swept away
and lose our selves in the process?</div>
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The difference between my studio in Montana and Chicago is
the relationship I have with this chaos of constant contact and the press of
time. Now that I am back in
Chicago, going on two months, I find this constant need to isolate and find
long, uninterrupted hours to be another battle to contend with. It is not
enough to push and find purchase within the studio, within a given painting; I
now have to fight against those outside demands in a way that is absent in
Montana.</div>
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I know that this is a struggle we all face within our daily
lives of work and family. </div>
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For an artist, especially as we get older and the body does
not take as kindly to the abuse of stress and lack of sleep, I find that quiet
and deep isolation become more and more important. To be able to tap into
consciousness at a deeper level it is so important to look within, to not get
caught up in chaos, to observe and witness.</div>
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I came back to a studio in Chicago devoid of prepared
canvases and spent the first two weeks building, stretching and priming 12 new
pieces ranging in size from 2’x3’ to 8’x6’ before I had to shift gears and
prepare for the studio opening and unveiling of the book on October 19th. After the opening I began two new large
canvases: </div>
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Beginning new work is intense in itself as once I begin
applying the turpentine washes I don’t stop or take a break until they are
full, rich and dripping in paint. It is a dance of movement and abandon. The
layering of colors on top of colors without intellectual thought, a process
that can last over 10 hours or more.</div>
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If I have prepared properly with an idea and drawing I can
just be totally in the moment without regard to whether the painting that
begins to emerge is like the drawing.
In a deeply satisfying way it is a transcendent movement, a waking
meditation, an almost out of body experience.</div>
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It is within this mezmerizing process that the pure essence
of creativity unfolds.</div>
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Looking Within: a series of Three: Part 3</div>
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As my time was winding down in Montana I turned to the last
prepared rag paper piece that I had mounted
early this summer. The book was off to the printer to print the hardcopy proof
that I could sit and hold and edit, so I was free to attack this last image
with abandon. I had three weeks before I had to shut down the studio and fly
back to Chicago.</div>
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This
piece comes from thinking about the divide that separates awakening
knowledge-that act of divine awareness that transcends all bonds, all limits.</div>
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Within this
dream state we are shaken in our concept of reality, our concept of time. The
winged messenger transcends through the window of perspective shattering the
myth of time, of linear understanding, of how we become truly awake. It is
through the veil darkly, that transcendent state, where the conduit is
discovered and tapped into.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">To realize the significance
of our Being transcends time and space, freeing us to become one with all
things.</span></span></span></div>
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Looking Within: a series of Three: Part 2</div>
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The 2<sup>nd</sup> and 3<sup>rd</sup> oil pastels began late
in the summer as the book edits intensified. I was pushed to want to be
creative as a balance to the hours of reading text and moving around images on
the computer as I edited the book. I needed to get lost in that mystifying
process of touching a blank surface and revealing an image that conveys a truth
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“Empathy’s Grace” 62”x43”
2013 oil and oil pastel on rag paper</div>
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Chaos</div>
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Spins
in vortex held</div>
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Quickens a breath</div>
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Within
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Spun, then pulled</div>
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Revealing
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The still points
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How do we find
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seems <span style="text-indent: -1.5in;">our world is in
chaos?</span></div>
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While still in Montana, deep within the studio, working on
the book and finishing the glazes on the large oil painting, “Reflections
Glimmer in Wavering Need”, I primed three rag paper pieces. These were mounted
on rigid foam board that is very light and easy to move around. Especially easy
and inexpensive to crate and ship back to my Chicago studio in the fall.</div>
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The first oil pastel was a vertical created around the idea
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come from an unending source, a source deep within our consciousness. Gifts that are given through the
cleansing of pain and suffering, that process of looking deep within to
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“In Grace Unfolding”
62”x43” 2013 oil and oil pastel on rag paper</div>
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The journey towards a book: Part 3</div>
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To add pressure to all of this, as if this project wasn’t
enough pressure, I decided in late spring after my April opening that I would
finish the layout, the selection of paintings and other artwork and the writing,
while I was isolated in my studio in Montana so that I could unveil the
finished book at my October 19<sup>th</sup> opening back in Chicago.</div>
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After building stretchers and beginning the painting that
was in the last blog series posted by Rebecca, I began my intense studio days.
Painting all day, then working on the rewriting of the narrative for the book
at night. Soon, I was weaving in the painting and the writing so that it just
all blurred.</div>
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By mid summer I had a very tight, focused flow of the book.
I used the 3 big themes: historical changes in my work, the building of the three
spaces and the philosophical dialogue that drives my thinking in both the journal
entries and the poems I write while painting. These three elements are the
woven fabric, the language that flows between the works of art and the images
of space, landscape and structure.</div>
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Now all I had to do was learn a new software program, Adobe
InDesign, and lay it all out in time to have blurb.com print a proof I could
hold and read and then correct. </div>
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Needless to say, this was monumental. </div>
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As I need to be painting everyday, I continued in the studio
finishing the large canvas and then starting three smaller pieces along with
three oil pastels; which I will write about in the next blog series. </div>
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I must have read and re-read my narrative 300 hundred times
honing the language, yet keeping my voice. Once I had the layout the way I
wanted it I was up to 221 pages. But it was right and I felt really good about
this. </div>
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It, for me, was a piece of art.</div>
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As with all pieces of art, the color of the paintings needed
to be as near to perfect so I turned to my long time designer of my website and
invitations, Les Sandelman, to painstakingly go over each and every image, over
200 in all, and make sure they were correct and would upload properly to the
book printer.</div>
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The hard copy proof came back the second week of September
and I poured through it for the final corrections then sent it off to be
printed. It was cutting it close, but the finished books arrived a week before
the October 19<sup>th</sup> opening. </div>
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I had done it.</div>
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The journey towards a book: Part 2</div>
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Now having all the key pieces I had to begin to edit down
the almost 300 photos of the artwork into a more concise and fluid number.
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both the poetry and the journal pages. It was a very intense next 6 months of
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Early on I realized that this was another art piece unto
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flow that would hopefully draw the reader to want to uncover the story just as
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I continued to edit and narrow down choices and realized,
once again, that this was in some ways harder than creating a painting. With a
painting, if someone didn’t follow at all my thoughts or concepts that went
into the piece they could at least enjoy the surfaces, the light, the movement
itself that makes up a painting. But in laying out this project I was laying
out my deepest thoughts, exposing how I process the work, how I think about
paintings in a very specific way: the philosophy that is the structure onto
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The journey towards a book: Part 1</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Last year I began to put together the elements for a book
about my work and life that had been in the back of my mind for over ten years.
During that time I had repeatedly been asked by some of my collectors if I
would ever be more forthwith with my process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">So I began by assembling 8x10 photographs of my artwork by
decades without editing. This became an ever-expanding binder that then
incorporated my poems that correlated with specific pieces. Once that was laid
out I began to figure out the narrative, the threads that linger throughout my
studio experience and quickly saw that if this was to be truthful and rich it
had to have excerpts from my journals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The other key was space: The building of my three studios
over these 40 years. So I began to collect photos all the way back to 1977 and
inserting them into the pages. The binder grew, once again.</span></div>
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I am back in the studio in Chicago after an intense 5 months painting and working on a book about the past 40 years of my life as an artist. As I am now posting directly to this blog I wanted to first thank Rebecca Astrop for the wonderful writing she did this past year. I also would be remiss if I didn't post the finished painting from the series she wrote about my working on the painting in Montana.<br />
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The title is: "Reflections Glimmer in Unwavering Need" 59"x 83 1/2", oil on canvas 2013<br />
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In the <a href="http://studio2846.blogspot.com/2013/05/progress-and-process-in-montana-part-one.html">original entry</a> in this series, we
touched on Wallace's unusual use of gesso in the early stages of preparing his
canvasses. Gesso is blend of white paint mixed with chalk, and in most
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In his work with the highly
textured materials of his <a href="http://studio2846.blogspot.com/2013/05/sculptural-framing.html">sculptural surrounds</a>, Wallace found himself
inspired to consider the canvas's surface in a similar way. He began
experimenting with the use of gesso to inscribe contoured images directly onto
the canvas. "I started to depart from the traditional way of priming a
canvas, and instead began to think of the primer, the gesso, as a means to
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“I found this to be a very
meditative process, and it's one which has become a part of my understanding of
the painting even before it has begun. The texture is barely visible when the
painting is complete. In this way, I am fetishising the work in
the historical sense of the word: the laying down of this scribed image,
scratched into the primer, with the knowledge that the paint will obscure it.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409850509687236625.post-60278253204175091072013-06-04T17:07:00.000-07:002013-06-04T17:16:50.503-07:00Progress and Process in Montana: Part Three<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Welcome
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his current canvas. "At this stage, my days are very much enveloped in the
rhythm and flow of both the physical objects and the colors within the work,
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canvasses can take several months to complete, and at this moment, Wallace
explains, "there are many weeks to go before I can really begin to think
about glazing and playing with the push and pull of space with light and
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dialogue that emerges with each stroke of the brush. As I paint, layers are
unveiled. Each discovery leads to another and another. Some things that end up
on the canvas are conscious and others are a result of simply allowing myself
to paint and to let the dialogue emerge. It is a dance that sometimes feels
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next week to watch as the work continues to unfold and take form. Meanwhile if
you have a specific question about Wallace's process, or about the work, we'd
love to hear from you - please leave a comment below.</span></div>
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"The painting is unfolding, revealing itself to me by degrees, as long as I am able to set aside my intellect and allow for the spontaneous response to form and movement; a kind of dance of emotions and energy, sparked by a beginning thought and then allowed to burst forth."<br />
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"It is an intense, and exhilarating time, as well as being exhausting, in that every stroke of creation forever changes the direction that the painting will take."</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409850509687236625.post-57819215295001285482013-05-19T17:44:00.000-07:002013-05-20T16:04:26.019-07:00Progress and Process in Montana: Part OneWallace arrived last week at his studio in Montana, escaping the humidity and bustle of the city. He plans to spend the rest of the summer here.<br />
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"It's a perfect day, 60 degrees. There's still snow on the mountains that surround the property. It's always somewhat surreal to have it be so warm, but to see snow on the peaks."<br />
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Upon arriving, Wallace began the five day process of building supports for the paintings and oil pastels he plans to create this summer, aiming to build enough to last him through until his return to Chicago - around 20 pieces altogether of varying sizes. Since the process of building one or two stretchers is the same as the process of building a larger number, Wallace prefers to build his canvasses in large batches. "That means I can just paint continually, without having to break the flow of painting and build."<br />
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Having assembled 14 stretchers for canvasses ranging in size from just 9 x 12 inches up to 56 x 78 inches, plus 7 mounts for the oil pastels he plans to work on, Wallace adds a coat of gesso to the canvasses. "This is a thicker coat that's very gestural in nature. It's a way of keying in the images that I want underlying the actual painting."<br />
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