I wouldn't characterize myself as a musician. JL - Well, that wasn't very hard. I was kind of a lousy musician. JL - White and black are very special colors in the sense that they have a strong negative and positive way of acting formally in a painting. I paint white on top of a white primer.
Dark lines become optical as they are playing against white.
White, depending upon how dense the linear pattern is, and how open it is, gives you more or loss light . It shows how radically different our view of painting is today. The fact that I don't consider that to be important is based upon the fact that I have a rather conceptual view of what the painting is doing, how it works, in ways which are actually less formal and more theoretically abstract. JL - Yes. At all times I regard myself to be dealing with form.