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Everything is all right, but confusing, and out of control. This is the condition in which I normally operate. So I'm guessing that everything is either all right or will soon be. At this time of life, (68 this year) I estimate that I have accumulated around 500 of my own paintings. Out in the world there are a lot more, but since they do not write home, I am not concerned with them. My concern, now in 2002, is the 500 that I do have in my personal collection. Luck has been with me up till now, in that I have had a safe place for them to be hidden away, waiting for the ones that are being produced in the present to come join them. However, all good things end in time and my storage place is disappearing fast. So I constructed a lightweight crate and filled it with 100 paintings, dating from 1967 to 2002. A collection of many very different paintings done over a period of time They, taken as a study, mark the influence on my life that the moment held graphically and psychically. Using the parameters of; size (to fit in the box), ease of accessibility within the storage area, ability of one painting to hold others within it's parameters physically, I was able to find a random selection process that kept my personality uninvolved. This method has provided a collection that spans over 30 years of painting. Now we have this box of 100 paintings that we don't need to open because on the top of it is a computer slide show of all the paintings that are safe inside. It will probably take more than five boxes to crate the rest of the collection but it seems that this is the shape of things to come. |
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