is it done yet? 'cause I can't stand to look at it

The creative process is ugly. My paintings are ugly for about 99% of their gestation.

Here's a glimpse at a painting that I really struggled with but ultimately added to the Something's Gotta Stick show because of its relation to the soft sculptures. It went through many painful iterations. Images below are from a camera phone so colors are blown out. No excuses. It's U-G-L-Y.





The final step was to put on my favorite WHITE-falling-circles layer as can barely be seen in this installation shot (also from my camera phone). The circle shapes are repeated on the wall with cut out white paper.


A note on the origin/inspiration for the shapes from "One Month, 21 Days":

Friday, 12.26.08 – Impermanence, interconnection, and random behaviors of subatomic particles. Bubbles in my paintings can be spherical, decoration, holes, etc. Objects take on the shape or quality of the viewer projects. They are subjective. Light can be a wave or particle. All is a matter of probability.