The journey towards a book: Part 2
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.
Along with this came the writing of the narrative itself and the sorting of
both the poetry and the journal pages. It was a very intense next 6 months of
development.
Early on I realized that this was another art piece unto
itself. So I approached it this way. Complex in finding a rhythm, in finding a
flow that would hopefully draw the reader to want to uncover the story just as
much as looking at the paintings and drawings.
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
which I lay the paint.
In other words: I was exposing myself with nothing to hide
behind.
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