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Pentimenti

It has been growing upon me, this sense of extra exposure in a photograph. I’m beginning to peer out like the moon behind dark branches. It has been coming upon on me, this feeling of being in a picture - a picture scratched into skin, a skin nailed to a blazing sun. I am in this painting where a superimposed ghost-tint back-lights my self-image - a pentimento emerging through. In these visions there is a pensiveness where light meets shadow as if I were witnessing the late works of an artist yet to be born.

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Date: 7/27/2020 9:51:00 AM
Ooh a new word for me! “pentimento”, I have a few canvases scattered about with previous incarnations poking through. Enjoyed this. xomo
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Eric Ashford
Date: 7/27/2020 9:59:00 AM
Hey PT, yes that's what the word means, and isn't it fun when two canvases emerge to create a third? Paint on! e

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