Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Which of these paintings do you find beautiful?

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B.

SOLD! Icarus Falls.

Icarus Falls.

SOLD! A watercolour and gouache on paper.

Cut crooked for the fun of it. Or a framers nightmare.

Crooked.

I was thinking about why I cut, or assembled so many of the Long Series with crooked, uneven, and irregular edges. One reason was that I found the effects that these edges provided interesting, and strangely appealing to me from an esthetic point of view. I’ve always been interested in odd compositions, and I like art that is rough, and slightly messy rather than neat and hard edged.

I was also a picture framer for many years, and a crooked piece of art could often become a nightmare for a framer. I would often frame a crooked piece of art in an interesting, and attractive way only to have the customer complain, “it’s still crooked.” Anyway I still like crooked things.