Friday, February 23, 2007

Just Undo It

Oil Painting Lemon Twist (detail) - oil/panel

Excerpt from this posting:

"...as I carved a flourish a little too long my fingers searched for command + z to undo my last action. Instead, as in all things handmade the path is forward and a better state of the art becomes history. The flourish by necessity becomes even longer and more decorative; a mistake requiring a creative answer..."

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Doug - I like it. I might have to organise some t-shirts with a 'just undo it' slogan, for the web designers in our studio!...