Alex Kanevsky's paintings are seemingly transient and meaty as the same
time. I am in love with his sense of weighted yet ghostly space. For myself, as a maker of things, this quote rings very true...
I am...fairly slow when it comes to actual painting. Slow but impatient. That can be a problem, but over time I figured out how to turn this contradiction into my own way of working. I can't do slow and methodical accumulation painting: I get bored with careful, planned sort of activity. I also depend on freshness of perception, what zen-buddists call "beginner's mind". That is difficult to sustain over a long period. After a while you are just not a beginner. So I work fast, trying to hit the right note every time. That is nearly impossible, so I constantly fail. But I keep coming back to a painting. It accumulates layers, each one - more or less a complete painting. Complete but failed.
- from an interview with vivianite.net
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