Скачать или смотреть ANDRE THE GIANT - Thursday, Week 74 (19/08/2021)

Today is a strange day. A day that scrambles my brain. Because I've been on a path of detachment for quite some time regarding my paintings. I've tried to teach myself to see them all as byproducts of the exact same act. A daily ritual that promotes self-acknowledgement thru the repetition of painting. And I think we've been faithful to those principles in our project. We've now done 74 Weeks of videos (almost 370 videos) upholding those beliefs. But today something happened. A painting just grabbed on and pulled at my heartstrings. And it wasn't a painting of my mother, or Dani, or Samu or Fer. I would've expected that. I thought I saw that coming. No, it was a painting of Andre the Giant's wondrous torso. And I feel I genuinely LOVE this painting. I honestly thought saying something like this would betray our project, but I now know that a painting can feel absolutely singular. So, with your permission, I'm going to treat this one painting, this one only, differently. Because I feel I HAVE to. I invite you all to watch and listen to today's vid where I try to make sense of this feeling. I also did a portrait of Andre which I'm super, super happy with and you can also check out the prelim drawing for Andre's chest painting where I was trying to figure out the proportions that I wanted for the final painting. I don't know if this painting is better or worse than the 370+ paintings we've done for our project, but it just feels different. And I think I have to honor and acknowledge that sentiment.

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