A painting has its own internal logic--the moment you apply paint to the canvas! If you are really in tune with its logic, you are in a state of surrender: it leads you, you don't lead it. If you try to impose some preconceived ideas already intellectually "worked out" in your mind, you'll veer terribly off course. For me, it's definitely a process of letting go--to study each gesture to see within it what comes next. And allow all the "accidents" you don't intend to cue the process as most accidents seem to happen for a reason...?...beyond our willing, beyond our conceptions of what we are trying to do. These are sometimes the best clues to how to proceed. Think of Carl Jung, and those universal archetypes from the unconscious mind. You have to dig deep into the grey matter, and then act as a medium, as a translator, from your soul to your conscious mind.
It's rather like dreaming.
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