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Day 2, Seattle to Rochester<\/p><\/div>\n

My friend, Jim Mott, the itinerant artist who does paintings in exchange for room and board, has begun a blog where he\u2019s posting a day-by-day account of his 2007 drive from Seattle to Rochester. http:\/\/mottart2007.blogspot.com\/<\/a> What\u2019s wonderful about the way he’s presenting his story as a plot is that you get to see the paintings he did, on the spot, as he wandered across the country, absorbing his surroundings and turning them into the currency of his journey. Here’s a sample from one of the earliest posts, describing an experience most honest painters will corroborate, no matter how masterful they’ve become:<\/p>\n

What I won\u2019t tell the class is how uncomfortable painting makes me. Maybe I\u2019m just lazy, but I find painting to be almost prohibitively strenuous, especially emotionally. There\u2019s the strain of trying so hard to capture or convey something I see that interests me, without really knowing how to do it. It always feels that way: like I don\u2019t know how to paint. And I rarely like what I end up with, at least not at first. Yet it seems important to do, and after the painting\u2019s been finished for an hour, a day, a week, a year, I can usually see that something important came through, enough to have made it worthwhile. Enough, in fact, to make me not want to let go of the painting. At any rate, in the end it feels worthwhile, and that\u2019s what keeps me going. But I almost always have to overcome a lot of resistance to get started, especially since stopping to paint something usually means two or three hours locked in struggle instead of two or three hours spent doing something more practical or pleasurable \u2013 such as wandering around looking at other things.<\/p>\n

It’s so encouraging to hear such familiar doubts and resistance from someone who clearly knows how to paint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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