un-doing and looking

Nearly every time I walk by this room and peek in the open door and see this wall I enter.
I sit down in my Rothko chair and look.
And I let myself pick up another part of the machine pieced luminous path and un-pick it.
And then I take two pins and my cane, and walk over to the wall and pin up that small part.
And then I sit down again, and look some more.

I should be preparing my workshops.  Writing my speech.
I procrastinate by un-doing and looking.

just the essential features

 

I took apart the luminous halo path and pinned it in sections to the wall.

Then I took those sections apart.

The effect of vitality will be enhanced if the symbol states no more than the essential features, if it states them clearly, and if it states them swiftly, for the very swiftness of the execution will convey a sense of power and liveliness to the spectator.

This vitality must also be accompanied with the tenderness and subtlety born of long and earnest insight into nature.

C.J. Holmes  Notes on the Science of Picture Making