Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Number 32, 1950

My piece, Number 32:Number 32, 1950 by Jackson Pollock
 457.5 x 269 cm

This is a painting I created during one of my work sessions. I wasn't really thinking of anything, except maybe things that are going wrong with my life. My drinking problem got a little worse and Lee has been talking to me about it.

The black paint at the side of the studio appealed to me particularly that day. It matched my mood. So I put on some of my depressing jazz I have for this particular type of occasion and got to work. It was great to do what I am so used to by now. I used a particularly large amount of wrist movement in this one, trailing the paint as far as it would go.

This method of painting let me vent out all my frustrations today, the excessive movements I used exhausted myself. I like to think that these movements are my subconscious thoughts trying to take a manifestation in the physical world, atop the canvas. The surrealists probably planted that idea in my head. Miro would have been proud of his legacy expressed in my paintings.


Feeling accomplished, I mounted the unstretched canvas.

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