Week IV: TRUST

Milton Avery, 1950s

Good class last night--sorry to miss Rebecca and Monica--we'll see you the next time. Discussion involved a good many of you--that's important--we all benefit from each other's ideas--and sometimes each other's silences. There are many ways of responding to work--finding your own is the key. Remember the point about "ideas"--that good ones often come from working in itself--that is, the idea follows the act.... You find out where you're going by getting started and seeing where the path may lead... Of course, everyone has favorite materials and favored starting points--we recognize these each week in each other's work (they're the beginning of a "style") --and they can be either a guides or a limitation, depending how openly your able to employ them. (Re-read those couple of sentences!) I still believe that openness--to feeling, to exploration, to (okay, even this) revelation is pretty much what it's all about...

The word for this week is TRUST. I think it needs a verb (you can supply one) in conjunction. For example:

TRUST / run
TRUST / hold
TRUST / lift

A little different. Involves the element of time, as well as that of action. Let's see where this takes us!

Milton Avery, Green Sea