"You do know I was kidding, right?"
Yes, I knew that, but it gave me the opportunity to write about
change. I'm always surprised at how profound change can occur in such
small increments to be barely perceptible. Like global warming and
snow in the southern most states it's almost unbelievable, yet
something is wrong. Can't quite put a finger on it.
It happens all the time in art. We're always struggling with questions
of "Is this face too tall? or, Is the nose too narrow?" It's genuinely
difficult to determine. Then you superimpose a photograph and it's
immediately apparent that half of the nose is way too wide and the
distance between the nose and the lips is much too short and the whole
thing shifts diagonally in a very weird way. Take the photograph away
and it doesn't look nearly that bad. Give it photographic proportions
and the whole seems mecahnical.
If I take photographs for a portrait I show the client drawings I've
made from the photo, not the photos themselves. As soon as a
photograph is introduced all comparison goes to that corner. Which is
unfair really, to a work of art made by hand. I want to see the hand.
I think the missed measure here and there and the wobbliness of the
human touch gives life to a painting.
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