Benny: “Time is a funny thing. Time is a very peculiar item. You see when you’re young, you’re a kid, you got time, you got nothing but time. Throw away a couple of years, a couple of years there… it doesn’t matter. You know. The older you get you say, “Jesus, how much I got? I got thirty-five summers left.” Think about it. Thirty-five summers.”

My newest palette.

And here are some details of what I am working on for my November solo show.

These are in varying stages and are not close to being done. I am excited with the progress. I read a great quote today from

Jenny Saville

“every mark has perspective”

it was scribled on a note in her studio that was photographed.

“To some extent I happily don`t know what I`m doing. I feel that it`s an artist`s responsibility to trust that.”
David Bryne

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people
miss.
Black Elk

“The only reason that we don’t open our hearts and minds
to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don’t feel
brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look
clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and
fearless about looking into someone else’s eyes.
Then this
experience of opening to the world begins to benefit ourselves and
others simultaneously. The more we relate with others, the more quickly
we discover where we are blocked, where we are unkind, afraid, shut
down. Seeing this is helpful, but it is also painful. Often the only
way we know how to react is to use it as ammunition against ourselves.
We aren’t kind. We aren’t honest. We aren’t brave, and we might as well
give up right now.
That’s the beginning of growing up. As long as we
don’t want to be honest and kind with ourselves, then we are always
going to be infants. When we begin just to try to accept ourselves, the
ancient burden of self-importance lightens up considerably. Finally
there’s room for genuine inquisitiveness, and we find we have an
appetite for what’s out there.”
– Pema Chodron
via whiskey river

“The very people who believe that everything has already been discovered and everything said, will greet your work as something new, and will close the door behind you, repeating once more that nothing remains to be said.” . . . “Newness is in the mind of the artist who creates, and not in the object he portrays.”
“What moves men of genius, or rather, what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”
– Eugene Delacroix
journal – May 14, 1824 Paris
via Whiskey River