-see the surface as a living presence

- develop your improvisational imagination

-dropping the bucket down the well

-art is the business of sensation and mind married

-the athletics between the analytical mind and feeling

-allow decisions to be guided by feeling

-how do we converse with the working surface

-how do we harvest sensation

-does an experience leave a residue?

-do we take our sensations seriously?

-subject matter is not important

-muscularity of the design

-music is pure design, no subject matter- just form

-a painting is a complexion

-color makes its own light

-how do shapes occupy the space they are living in? and what is the musculature of that occupation?

-do we follow our curiosity?

-conversation with paint, not with subject matter

-float in mystery where you do not need rationality

-become closer listeners to our own voice as it manifest in the surface

-allow destination to emerge from the process

-borders are important places in paintings

-how to lose control and how to swim in it

-build the muscles to hold yourself in your experience

-how do we deal with unexpected in our work?

-know a place in a complex way

- the more one sees the more one knows

-just because I see them, doesn't mean I need them

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