Another exhibition in the can. This was my first in the pandemic and had a different feel. Less visitors, but the ones that came felt special.
Sitting the exhibition this year gave me a chance to reflect. The paintings turn out to be more about the pandemic than I had recognized or intended. The oils are about places that stood against the pandemic, shops and nature. The ink paintings are about escaping the room that held me zoomed and imprisoned.
This is one reason I don't like to talk about my paintings. I make them but don't make them consciously. I'm not a rational painter. Reasons, intentions are more complicated than I recognize. People see different things in the paintings. Oftentimes they see and know more than I.
