But the more I listened, the more I understood that part of what was true for him was that everything had so much meaning, associations, layers of memory, that his way of expressing it was through digression, embroidering and coloring, in paintings and the language. Placing together of Day's paintings with objects familiar to him, some used by people he knew, makes this exhibition a very personal one. His paintings in particular, but also his talk, have helped me think about that world. I feel he's inseparable from it. The more I've gotten to know him, his work, his words, the richer and more complex a human being he seems.
Art is a more direct medium than words, when the art is good.
Day's best work show that in painting, he discovered the rhythm and heart of his message to the world. This article is copyrighted. No reproduction, complete or in part, is allowed without written permission.