this is my mess. this is the fabric that catches all the pai..
Added 2022-06-13 22:23:32 +0000 UTCthis is my mess. this is the fabric that catches all the paint I spill over the edges of my "official" paintings. I've been swooning over my drop cloths since day 1. As a painter, I love messy studios. I love paint all over my body, usually my legs and hands and feet. I love walking through this world speckled in color. I love how everything my paint touches becomes more beautiful, even the rags on the floor to catch the mess. I have dreamed for a long time of turning these rags, these giant pieces of cardboard and canvas, into works of arts in their own right. Cut them up. Frame them. Celebrate how in the process of creating one thing we create another. They deserve to be seen, loved, celebrated. Everything we create in the process of creation is beautiful. Happy mistakes. Drop offs. Byproducts. Perfection everywhere. In some ways, I love these drop cloths even more than I love the paintings I'm intentionally working on. I just do. I love how they just appeared in my life like magic, surprises, special treats at the end of many months and even years of playing around and looking in other directions. ;)
