February 17, 2020 - The mind of a developing painter is always alternating between being smooth and being rough. When the mind is smooth there are no questions, and no places for new information to nest. When the mind is rough its ground is perforated by problems in our painting and becomes unstable; old thought structures can give way and new ideas find footing with us more easily as we ask questions in an attempt to smooth things back out. We all eventually run into the same problems in painting. The problems are universal, but we each encounter these issues in our own unique order. The point in time at which our mind becomes rough about something will govern the questions we’re asking, which in turn will govern which answers we can even hear. I’m suggesting that for each…