I have been reading art students’ motivational letters - What they are trying to do and why, in hopes of their being accepted by art schools in other countries for study abroad.
I started wondering, What am I doing? Why?
After some reflection I decided that I don’t know. It surprised me to realize that my new paintings are all of local shops and restaurants all endangered by the pandemic. I thought I was painting them because I liked the night time light. But there may be more to it.
Today’s work in progress
I will add it is impossibly hard to correctly photograph these new ones, half dry, with the strange and different sorts of reflections on the surface.