A broken tulip

This painting is inspired by a question I first saw in Maggie Smith’s posts: “What else is possible?” It struck me as an expansive, generous question. I wrote about this painting and conversations that happened around it this summer. Here’s an excerpt:

“Sometimes we have to unlearn a thing to relearn it,” I offer to her, and then I say it again to the man who limps in on a cane, face hidden behind large sunglasses. At some point in our conversation he slips them off, pockets them. His eyes are brilliant blue. “I’m a photographer,” he tells me, “and I used to do these shows, years ago.”

He picks a painting of a paper bird in a circle of cream, with blues and yellows and black lines swirling around it. I named it, What else is possible? (1). “I like this,” he says, “because I can’t tell if it’s the inside of someone’s brain or the galaxy.”

Read the whole essay.

This painting is 8.5 inches by 11 inches on canvas paper. This painting has sold. Browse other paintings for sale here.