Hey You!

Does your art talk to you? I don't mean in actual words... or do I?...  My art certainly does talk to me!  I might say, it fairly well bosses me around.  Here's what I mean: 

I often produce up to 5 pieces in one session.  Some of these paintings are immediately satisfying and I know they are 'something.'  Others are just wash-outs and go immediately into a re-do pile.  Others are just 'quiet,' and go into the deliberation pile to be visited another time.  Occasionally. when I revisit them I begin to hear murmurings or rumblings of what I missed or need to pay attention to.  Other times I attempt to discard one or more of these by either placing it in the file cabinet or putting it into the re-do pile (I almost never throw anything away,) but I am unable to do so.  It's as if the piece is saying, "Hey you, pay attention to what you are paying attention to!"

This is one of the latter.  It has been in the deliberation pile for months.  I pull it out to scan it to place online for digital sales when, it stops me, calls to me, rivets me... and tells me to examine it for what it has to say. 

First of all, it is a visceral, bloody color.  I don't like the organ-meatiness of it, but this is relieved by deliberate introduction of circular forms, over-spraying of ink droplets and lastly, drippiness which softens all the hard edges.  The painting demands my concentration upon the things that were done in the creative moment without planning, forethought or awareness.  It is spoken in the language of pure abstraction, in which the work is asking to be experienced, not 'viewed.'  

That is my art speaking to me.  I hope it speaks to you and thanks for looking!