Drifting away
筆を加えれば加えるほど作品がイメージから遠ざかってしまうことがある。もともとはっきりとしたイメージがあるわけではないのだが、作品がだんだん離れていってしまうのは感じる。そんな時は筆を止めしばらく様子を見ながら他の作品へ移ることが多いのだが、どうしても気になり筆を止められない時はそのまま描き続ける。 はたして作品が前に進んでいるのか、後退しているのかも分からなくなるとき、自分が作品をコントロールしているのでなく、作品の方が主導権を持っていてそれに自分が付いていかざるをえないような気持ちになる。
Sometimes, as I add more paint on a painting, it drifts away from an initial image. Altough the initial image isn't always very concrete, I could tell when a painging is moving away from it. When that happens, I often stop working on that purticuler painting and move on to other paintings. But once in awhile, something stops me from moving away and I keep on adding more paint, even though it doesn't help the painting to progress. It feels as if the painting has more controle over me than I do over the painting.
Detail from an ongoing painting
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Sometimes, as I add more paint on a painting, it drifts away from an initial image. Altough the initial image isn't always very concrete, I could tell when a painging is moving away from it. When that happens, I often stop working on that purticuler painting and move on to other paintings. But once in awhile, something stops me from moving away and I keep on adding more paint, even though it doesn't help the painting to progress. It feels as if the painting has more controle over me than I do over the painting.
Detail from an ongoing painting
