indigo
1. prototypical color
I’m looking for this color everywhere in life. Indigo. I went out in search of a particular deep blue planter pot last week. For over a year it was on the window ledge in a room I frequent often in Hell’s Kitchen. But last week, it was gone. My only reliable indigo in life, out the window, or taken to another room. I need a new, reliable deep blue. I can’t rely on seeing this car door.
prayer circle mass
2. compositional study
For a painting in early stage. The first note is that there is too much sky and to lift the horizon. The next note is to shift the hillside base in accordance. The people along the quarry’s edge must rise as well and create a greater arc. Next of note is to make the quarry green. With the top of the composition shifted, the bottom has a note to make the figures taller and alter their height line. A box labeled “fog” encapsulates the lower third of the scene. Lastly, there is a note to paint every person as defined as the rest, the further figures the same as those in the foreground.
always on the shelf
3. on the shelves
“This book, the first detailed account of developments centered around the conceptual art movement, highlights the main issues underlying visually disparate works dating from the second half of the 1960s to the end of the 1970s. These works questioned the accepted categories of painting and sculpture by embracing a wealth of alternative media and procedures.”
-Thames & Hudson
dry brush loop
4. anatomy of a mark
A mark of dark red comes from the top center and makes two loops. Loops can look too doodly, but at the beginning of a painting I leave them be. What is great about this looped mark is its relation to the rest of the forms and space, as well as its dry brushed rough edges.
Full Circle, 2026
Fountain House Gallery opening for Encased
6. infj
In front of Dream Pools.