Sometimes I’m not sure where a painting is going.

I keep on adding layer after layer because something is off. And so they pile up. More emotions, more thoughts, more memories and then it gets even harder to be content with this tangled net of paint strokes.

This was definitely the case here. Only once I started to uncover the lower levels did it start to make sense.

Often in life it’s hard to grasp the overall idea governing your life. Or at least me life. But then there’s that moment when you’re in the now as Elkhart Tolle says. And it does make sense or often it doesn’t have to and it still does.

I have a lot of these glimpses when I paint.