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came the beginnings of Static, a mass of tiny glittering strange city and feel extremely desolate, might have
units like a rain of arrows. missed people whom one thought one was going to see,
might be oppressed by the city. It might be built of dark
Do you often get ideas for paintings from visual experience of stone. The houses might be very tall, one might feel
reality? cold, and have this feeling of oppression. Those three or
Occasionally, but in a roundabout way, in that visual four days could add up to a totally oppressive period.
experience, all experience, of reality adds up to a These are the sorts of things that I could recognize later
whole thing, an overall state of being. One might go to a in one of my paintings, if I had felt them deeply enough.
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