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Oct 25, 2024
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Fear. Acrylic on canvas. October 24, 2018.

[painting experiment: think about fear such as things keeping me stuck or held back; choose colors; work the paint til it felt like that fear]

A reminder to me that fear has texture, colors, nuances.

And/but these are not owned by fear. Those same textures, colors, nuances can be found in a range of other emotions…

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