This week I wanted to try out a different way of using the paints, so I got rid of the brush and used my hands. Along with some smaller samples, I did a larger scale painting to experiment with seeing how the paint felt and how the colors work together. I kind of like it actually, it reminds me a bit of Gerhard Richter’s color-blended paintings.

After a couple of other experiments, I did one of my anxiety paintings. The process of physically using my body rather than a tool, such a brush, made me feel a lot more connected to the painting. I could physically exert all of my feelings onto the canvas. Below is the end result.

During my discussion this week also with Andrea, she mentioned looking back at the project I did over the summer. That project dealt with the idea of time and the permanence of memory. Upon thinking about it more over the week, I think I also want to try out eliminating the “permanence” of the image I created and paint over the painting daily. This plays with the idea of just how permanent the images that we make are. It also brings up the concept of the value that we as artists have in each artwork that we make and forces me to no longer remain connected to a single image, but continue moving forward.