Content

Content reveals itself in strange ways. Ways which I would not have predicted. If you focus on the light, this alone will create the world, not the image. I'm interested in the whole world.

When I look at a Poussin painting, I do not see an image. When I look at a Rubens painting, I do not see an image. I see a painting. Poussin digs deep into antiquity, distills those classical forms and fits them permanently into his contemporary world of his classic love. The trees are just as important structure as the figures. The story told has been repeated many times, but he wants to see them fit together where all the pieces flow in this world of his own.

As a song need to be like a spell, so does a painting, A painting needs to create a world in its own way.