Somewhere I heard about how hard it is to put three circles on a surface and size them and space them in such a way that there is no obvious relationship between any of them—but, if you do it, how beautiful the result can be. I like this. You can’t really plan it out, or else you fail at your objective.

I suppose that this idea is somewhere in the back of my head whenever I start a painting. I don’t want to have much of a plan for it. I might have some colors in mind, or recall a vague daydream I had about some shapes, forms, or something that I thought was clever. But, really, it’s all just a series of reactions and responses to the things that appear before me.

Sure, it’s abstract expressionism. It’s spontaneous. Archetypes and symbols pop up. I want things inside of me to come out and onto the canvas so that I can see them and try to make them pretty or funny or interesting.

Texture and tension drive most of my actions. Get close to see these things. Get close enough that you smell the paint. Nothing else in your field of view. That’s how you should look at these.

— TWPC