The Virtue of Uncertainty

My belief is that to understand and speak coherently about one's own painting, one must first become receptive to the channels in oneself through which one's imagery makes its way to the canvas. These channels are myriad, from the most sensitive nerve endings in the finger tips to synapses at work in both the thinking mind and the dreaming mind, which are inseparable from one another as parts of the body. In other words, painting as I understand it, is not an expression of what one thinks or feels, exclusively, but of what one is.

Autorentext

Ben La Rocco is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He has exhibited in America and Europe. He is a managing arts editor at The Brooklyn Rail where he has been publishing his writing since 2004.

Klappentext

My belief is that to understand and speak coherently about one''s own painting, one must first become receptive to the channels in oneself through which one''s imagery makes its way to the canvas. These channels are myriad, from the most sensitive nerve endings in the finger tips to synapses at work in both the thinking mind and the dreaming mind, which are inseparable from one another as parts of the body. In other words, painting as I understand it, is not an expression of what one thinks or feels, exclusively, but of what one is.