Exciting Familiarity

I still love cityscapes. I don't think I can escape them, even though I once thought I needed to, wanted to, or even had to. I used to have it in my mind that the "subject" mattered. I am now learning none of that matters. The way of the paint is what matters. The paint is the soul of the subject and can be seen right away or with close observation, and sometimes not at all. I have been painting cityscapes for a long time now. I live within this subject, so it's around me daily, and it's also in me as a familiar way that has become attached to painting. I continue to get this urge to paint the city out of comfort and familiarity, and also this continuous search for something within it that has this need to keep growing and morphing into something more. Cityscapes have become a way for me to move paint around and always find new things from it. This practice continues in the studio as something I've decided to now honor as a way that keeps me going and excited, as much as a way and an excitement for those that take in what comes from that, and we all are in the cityscapes together. My paint has bravely moved outside its familiar here and there over the years and continues for me mostly as a teacher to learn and grow from and eventually share out loud someday.