imagine a varnish
consuming your waking hours
and even sometimes
insisting itself in a dream
the acrylic the gloss the matt
the turps-based the oil
and what goes with what
acrylic over oil
oil over acrylic
then there’s shellac
that magic
but toxic
according to some not others
and so we come to muse
on our own mortality
and the toxicity of chemicals in art
giving up art to sit before a computer
which poses its own hazards
slowing the metabolism
pooling the blood
Two complicated processes, one external and the other internal, both hazardous in their ways.
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed this walk back through the equally pleasurable and risky world of paint.
ReplyDeletewonderful - the body persists :)
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