Asking studio questions related to:

PATIENCE

• can we return to what we’re working on and see/feel it with fresh eyes?

• how often do we surprise ourselves and follow it?

• can we allow the image on the working surface to grow slowly or do we expect quick results?

PLAY

• can we forget who we are or who we are supposed to be?

• where and when do we consciously undermine expectations?

• are we making scripted moves that might be crutches to support us from falling down?

• can we see uncertainty and swimming out of control as glorious possibilities that might carry us to much needed (but scary) places?

PRIORITIES

• what matters within the moment and do we need everything?

• how can we carry a painting beyond what we might think it is or should be?

• can we differentiate between what matters and what doesn’t and what does that mean anyway?

This is a carefully shaped playground/sandbox seminar, hands on painting time, examining ways in which we come closer to ourselves from a variety of directions.

3 days on zoom with paint, oriented toward:

• fertilizing the sensuous imagination

• redefining the idea of ‘finish’ from the inside out rather than outside in

• reconstructing a sense of how to move from here to there without knowing the destination

Our 3 days together are not about the standard procedure of let me do a demonstration to show you how it’s done.  Not at all. This is about you, not me.

As with Reframing the Ordinary, I’ll be walking you through various and perhaps tough confrontations with yourself, asking critical questions and, you will be finding your way in your own way, but not imitating me. This is about you and ways that you learn to watch yourself watching. And the possibility of suggesting ways of being in the studio as your own midwife.

I’d prefer that you will be working in acrylic paint so that the required drying time with oil paint will not be an issue.

Our time together is not about product orientation or performance, but rather, inquiry and curiosity. We’re not interested in impressive results or in answers but rather in the idea of asking questions.