This painting Foray is built upon a previous layer, a self portrait sourced from the imagination 29 years before. That completed artwork was titled Portrait of a Soul.
How many layers of meaning come out of the act of intentionally forming a new image from something created in the past?
I am reminded me of the moment at the end of the story of the Falling People, where we are tasked with creating a new future and invited to fall through it.
The Whisper seems incomplete, if you think about trying for a photographic representation of painting. … And art isn't about that. It is about speaking something into the world that has meaning, that can make a difference.
Sometimes you can change the world with just a whisper. And this painting is just a “whisper” of brushstrokes, with more brushstrokes yet to come. It has all the possibility and potential of the future waiting on the cusp of the next movement of the brush.