Do Something....

As you start to piece your research together, just remember that starting simply to work with your materials will lead to something else. I'm reminded of this by watching an interview with Malcolm Morley (click on Post Title above picture), where he says something which I always find true when I'm working on a painting...do something, do something else. Jasper Johns (picture) said exactly the same thing, and it's so simple but truely effective: 'Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that,' to quote him directly. Always keep this in mind. Ideas, materials and the visual outcomes reveal things as you work with them, not by 'overthinking' things.