Found Painting(s)

While packing up a Christmas gift to send off to Florida, I ended up with these two images--love the simple, graphic quality of these matter-of-fact objects/found paintings. 

Sketchbook (of late)

Shape made of movement

Structure amidst/in color

From a "sculpture" I made with Alex today--am thinking of new painting structures.

Basil Beattie and Claude Viallat

These days are tough ones for me in terms of studio work.  I still have not figured how one nurtures an infant AND nurtures a studio.  All in due time I tell myself, as the remnant of baby vomit on my shoulder wafts through my nostrils.  I think this current reality makes finding new (to me that is..) painting so wonderful, so soul-feeding.  Basil Beattie (top) and Claude Viallat (bottom) came to my attention just today.

Jen Omaitz

Delightful painting/collage/assemblage by Jen Omaitz.  Look here for more work.

Al Taylor

I came across the work of Al Taylor today.  More wonderful images can be found here.

Learning to (read, look, name, invent)

My first grade son brought the-above sheet home from school last week containing lists of words.  I love these lists!  (And I can't help but think there is an equivalent studio exercise for me here.)  He continues his immersion in the remarkable state of "learning to read and write."  As I watch him gather more and more words EACH DAY, I try to recall my own state of in-between--the in-between of not-knowing and knowing what words mean.  I do remember first grade some and I do remember feeling giddy about the elaborate, never ending gift of being able to read words, and then whole books!

My second son is in his own place of discovery--no less wonderful to behold.  I watch him as he stares at his own hand.  He gets that this hand is his hand I think.  But he is still trying to unlock the mystical connection between his hand and his hand moving where he wants it to move.  Every day yields a little more progress on that front.

Both remind me of the importance, and the poignance, and the hard work of existing IN the in-between of not-knowing and knowing

Pattern and color

Sergej Jensen

Are these good?  I keep going back and forth.