How can I know what to do?
Sometimes people will ask me, “What were you thinking of when you did that painting?” Often the question is an enquiry about what I had in mind that gave birth to that painting. Occasionally something about the process stands out in my mind which I can then relate to the questioner, but more often than not I find I have to utter some banality since I don’t know how to communicate what I went through and what produced the painting. Gerhard Richter has observed that painting is another form of thinking, something that you do in secret and then reveal in public. That feels exactly right to me since the process of creating a painting is a form of thinking out-loud; just as with most thinking, the thoughts evolve as they are encountered and engaged with, and to try and tell someone how you reached the final painting is like…
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