{"id":6039,"date":"2015-06-11T12:36:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T12:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=6039"},"modified":"2015-06-08T13:29:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T13:29:51","slug":"unfinishing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=6039","title":{"rendered":"Unfinishing it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_5563.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-6040 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_5563.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5563\" width=\"475\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_5563.jpg 2172w, https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_5563-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_5563-1010x1024.jpg 1010w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On my recent visit to the home and studios of Bill and Jean Stephens, I got a look at a wall full of work Bill has been doing. The little grove of trees (where Jean built\u00a0her human-sized nest of branches and twigs) fascinates Bill, and he&#8217;s been doing an extensive series of paintings and drawings inspired by it. Recently, he took a small suite of these paintings and sanded them down, erasing upper layers of the paint and revealing far more abstract and beautifully colored areas underneath: from representation back to abstraction with a technique that almost fits into the Japanese\u00a0<em>gutai<\/em>\u00a0sense of letting the erosion of materials become an essential part of how a work of art will turn out. In this case the erosion is intentional. I really like what he&#8217;s ending up with, though he may be tempted to reverse course and start finishing things more. But unfinishing a painting is an interesting idea. Take it back in time to something that wasn&#8217;t actually visible at any point along the way.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On my recent visit to the home and studios of Bill and Jean Stephens, I got a look at a wall full of work Bill has been doing. 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