The other day Richard et Moi re-united at the studio for some necessary cleanup (ass ordered by the pretty dictatorial landlord). And hey, after about ten heavy duty painting sessions that didn’t even seem such a bad idea after all.. Some order is in order, right? So there we went, together in a car stuffed with ten big garbage bags full of I dunno what, talking about how love turns out in practice. We concluded that the sustainable green ideas that drive our girlfriends in totally different ways are actually damn great, and inspiring even..
When we pulled up to the garbage dump we encountered this guy.. I guess synchronicity can have a sense of humour too.. There are some damn scary extremists outthere (click the pic). We reassured ourselves to stay on track and focus on our creative objectives up next.
With the two of us the creative process basically starts with slacking from grabbing whatever to get the paint on the canvas. From a positive perspective one could call it foreplay. Although sex is surely creative, from my experience it never was nearly as frustrating as the process of painting can be at times.. if at all.. So much for the foreplay/sex comparison. I guess the slacking might be called something like the “fuzzy frontend” of the process of painting. A warm-up to get some inspiration.