New Painting, "The Search for Simplicity"

In Search of Simplicity New Painting Oil and Mixed Media on Canvas 16" x 20" x 1.5" Available "One day I will find the right words. And they will be simple." -Kerouac This painting was literally 5 other paintings before it was this one. There was so much I was trying to say with this canvas, and the message got really jumbled in my head. I felt like my ideas, my wishes for this one were in one of those stone tumblers that I used to long for as a kid, those mysterious machines that took ordinary rocks, swallowed them, and spat them out all shiny and interesting-looking. Once I stopped trying to force the ideas and let the painting speak through me, speak to me, did it emerge. That's how it always happens. One day I will learn...