Yesterday driving home from the coast ... top down, country backroads, loud music ... I actually felt beauty ... not just saw it or heard it ... I was inside the matrix of beauty. And I understood beauty comes to us from an infinite number of pieces and parts colliding in time, not the least of which is courage. So today I'm returning to a piece started months ago. For years I've wanted to use gold leaf in a portrait ... Klimt did it masterfully, and lots of others too. If it works, and I hurry, it will show at an event in September ... and if it really works, people will feel beauty. But that's a whale of an ask ... I'll happily settle for finishing on time.
