Someone asked me “How do you write about a painting.” Here’s a very typical example of some of the steps I take to do this. Then I panic and start writing as hard as I can. You?

I need the information in my head organized onto one flat surface the same way that paintings are organized. Things slip into place and then become movable pieces that can be moved to mean different things. Things in relation to one another. I think of it as thinking the flesh.

Nothing exists on its own in the painting (even the painting exists within a Russian Doll of hyper-contexts). Placing possible components of information/thought/conjecture on a single surface allows me to see constellations and to become a freedom machine like the painting. You?