Process :: Wafian

'Wafian' has been in flux for a few days. (Which is where it gets it's name):

Wafian : From Proto-Germanic *wabōną, *wabjaną ‎(“to wander, sway”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- ‎(“to move to and fro, wander”).

It began as most of pieces usually do; a meditation on the colors and rhythms of my surroundings. The frozen pond in the backyard, the layers of slush along the roadside, the ice on the tree branches. And as my work usually does, it dictated it's own way from there.

I am finding myself especially drawn to the patterns in the melting snow, the way it breaks over logs and disappears into puddles. These forms have began to sneak into my work.

I began to consider the white space, originally borne out of snowy inspiration. Most of my work utilizes the negative space in a balancing act with the paint, but it is usually white, or raw canvas. I've done one or two pieces in recent memory that fill the page, but in general I like to use the white space as a way to emphasize what is happening in the rest of the work.

And an old bottle of ink was calling to me, so I answered.

I'll add one more coat of the ink to the areas of the canvas where the strokes are visible, but I am intrigued by what has already happened to the balance of the piece.

Experimental painting days are the best.