I Think A Painting Should Include More

I'm Working In My Mind.

Art As A Fantasy Has Been One Of My Earliest Experiences. I Suppose A Lot Of My Childhood Was A Fantasy That Involved Getting Away From Things I Didn't Like. Fortunately It Had Some Relationship To Reality So That Later I Was Able To, To Some Extent, Act As I Imagined I Might.

There Was Very Little Art In My Childhood. I Was Raised In South Carolina; I Wasn't Aware Of Any Art In South Carolina. There Was A Minor Museum In Charleston, Which Had Nothing Of Interest In It. It Showed Local Artists, Paintings Of Birds.

Object In/ And Space - The First Impulse May Be To Give The Object - A Position - To Place The Object. (the Object Had A Position To Begin With.) Next - To Change The Position Of The Object. - Rauschenberg's Early Sculptures - A Board With Some Rocks On It. The Rocks Can Be Anywhere On The Board. - Cage's Japanese Rock Garden - The Rocks Can Be Anywhere (within The Garden).

Most Of The Power Of Painting Comes Through The Manipulation Of Space... But I Don't Understand That.