I had resolved to work in silence until the day when I should feel myself able to defend in theory the results of my attempts. However, I find theory too important to be relegated to the back of the bus. Theory, as it gains depth and richness to ongoing experience, is mesh with my paints and influences the next canvas's approach and experiment. I, at this point of my development, agree that nature is behind all art. However, it is my modus operandi to study the processes of creating art with a critical eye but yet safeguard that element of mystique in art derived from the private domain of the artists' emotions and feelings.
Taste is the best judge.
It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals. Thus art remains unreal and an occasionally diversion from the hard knocks of real life. It remains palliative and therapeutic for most. And those that do it full time and are successful at it, prescribe the tonic with dispensing and directional skills of a pharmacist.