plein air painting has become a way for me
to see past the deception of
the eye..
which we interpret as a photographic thing
but the eye shuttles rapidly
between objects overlapping things
thrust forward
held back
the brain with its neural networking
assembles the visual data and interprets the
information
gives it edges
gives it definition
when I paint and
am in the zone
and the canvas is heavily
textured
denying me edges
I start to sense what the eye is seeing
by my interaction
with the canvas
and what I see
and
as my eye
scans the painting
and the edgeless
night
so for a while
the illusion of definition
is lost
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