Experience is always the present moment.

      

                                                       detail. oil on wood. from A Man and his friends. 130x130cm.


Painting a head (my head) is preparing to fail. I begin with a mixture of optimism and trepidation and experience frustration, imagine that the work is progressing and realize that it is not. I can't give up although I so often want to, so it is scraped down, restarted. It is all I can do and I cannot stop.