Theory

Try to imaging a composer writing a melody based on music theory. This knowledge will surly help, but the communication of the spirit must work associatively. Moving from one tone to the next with a gaze set on some glimpse that you thought you saw.

I like to read in the studio in front of an unfinished painting. It helps me sort things out. There is a drama going on, but it is not literal, it must be felt.

Painting is a constant focusing and refocusing toward that very element. The whole and the part must be in perfect tension.

Things cannot be depicted, they must fall into place at the right time. I have to be prepared to move the composition quickly enough to do so.