Leonard Orr: Fluent Borders: 50 Paintings 2007
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"Painting is a way to engage life in a fully sensory and passionate manner. It is a refreshing departure from the verbal and linear, from the rule-bound or time-bound. Abstraction allows me the greatest freedom; instead of trying to create a resemblance, every painting can be filled with surprise, mystery, energy, and emotion. I attempt to keep my brain out of the process as much as I can and let my unchecked passions flow. At the same time, my process is meditative and not end-directed; it is often difficult to decide when a painting is finished and I have returned to place new layers of color in a 'finished work.'
I enjoy painting when it provides constant surprises, both in the form of the entire painting and the minute details of a small area. I turn the canvas around to paint from all sides to keep seeing it anew; they have no predetermined orientation and I make no sketches or advance plans. To encourage this open-endedness, I allow for chance and spontaneity, accept accident, and go against rules and conventions (using colors that normally do not go together, using splashes of paint and water, allowing drips and transparent paints over those areas that seem most complete). I use acrylic paints because they allow the greatest speed of execution and drying and the fullest range of effects from the most watercolor-like translucence to thick textures and opacity. I normally apply paints directly from tubes to canvas to keep the brightest and most true colors (and to make the brush just one of the possible tools for moving the colors).
My current paintings fall into different general categories of technique. One painting generates the next because with each painting I try to use different colors and different techniques than I employed in the most recent painting. I often work on two paintings at once and these will in some way offer parallel and opposing responses to the same emotional moment. All of the paintings, though non-representational, are full of meditative spots, hot and cold cul-de-sacs, and panoramas without place."
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