A LITTLE SOMETHING OR OTHER

SURFACING oil on canvas 2x-24 x 48" (diptych) sold

This hot-off-the-easel piece began life as one panel (the one on the right). It was finished, all done, finito. Signed, photographed, waiting to dry enough that hanging wire could be installed. And it just… well, it just…hmmm. Needed a little something-or-other. So I made it a friend, a yang for its yin. I upped and turned it into a diptych (as they say in arty parlance). That spent, red lily leaf in the upper right, upturned and preparing to take the final dive, now has its visual complement with M. le Fish down there on Panel #2. And there’s another after-the-fact yin and yang impulse–I had finished the entire left panel, and…well, it just… needed a fish. I painted in said fish from photos I took at Portland’s justly famous Japanese garden. He was a beaut: silver white and sporting that Chinese-red yarmulke. And there you have it. You just never know: the much-vaunted creative process turns out sometimes to be mere hole- plugging – punting – improvisation (if you can figure out just what that...that something-or-other is that’s needed!) .