Directions to Myself While Painting

Use all the words you can't get out of your head.

Connect GESTURE and ENERGY.

Be a broken record!

COLOR: use color, comic book color, new york color, matisse color, eastern europe color, cigarette color, dream color, misprint color.

Compact form.

Crisis gets juice flowing. Create a crisis.

Scrape down and rethink. Direct shapes.

The monumental object in a perfect state of compressed sculptural tension
VERSUS
the primary color jazzed up unspooling mental picture against mental picture cave wall/hieroglyph narrative.

Use all the elements found in a comic book, but juxtaposed in a new order. Use completely sincerely.

March 2004, New York City

P.S. reviewed and re-endorsed November 2006.