{"id":2531,"date":"2013-02-25T18:56:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T18:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=2531"},"modified":"2013-02-26T16:18:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T16:18:11","slug":"observations-and-asides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=2531","title":{"rendered":"Observations and asides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/hayden-carruth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2532\" alt=\"hayden-carruth\" src=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/hayden-carruth.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/hayden-carruth.jpg 448w, https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/hayden-carruth-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a>Usually, when I \u00a0paint successfully, \u00a0I am working from a kind of craving, not out of a compulsion to get work done. I don\u2019t mean a vague desire to have a finished painting to hang somewhere. (That\u2019s closer to having a goal to achieve.) I actually mean the physical feeling of desire to spread paint on canvas, so that the act of applying the paint is a gratifyingly sensuous experience. I attended a poetry workshop run by Hayden Carruth at the University of Rochester once, when Carruth was teaching at Syracuse, and he said that writing poetry was physically pleasurable in a way he didn\u2019t understand or try to explain. I\u2019ve forgotten everything else he talked about, of course.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t true usually throughout the entire course of a single painting. There are patches and passages that frustrate me and seem to resist, but creating the image has to be delightful at some level for the image to convey any kind of delight to the viewer. It\u2019s as if I can feel the image <i>in<\/i> my body as I\u2019m making it real outside my body. And when I\u2019m painting well, it\u2019s as if I\u2019m satisfying a physical appetite, not simply basking in a nice, warm emotion that things are going well, which is how I feel in many different situations, such as making good time on the highway, without getting stopped for speeding, while driving down to New York City. The act of driving itself is servitude and tedium: the notion that I\u2019ll be spending less time doing it is what gives me a little glow of modest pleasure. Making a picture and watching its contours and colors emerge from behind my brush\u2014it\u2019s feels good in a purely physical way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually, when I \u00a0paint successfully, \u00a0I am working from a kind of craving, not out of a compulsion to get work done. I don\u2019t mean a vague desire to have a finished painting to hang somewhere. (That\u2019s closer to having a goal to achieve.) 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