{"id":4646,"date":"2011-10-27T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/27\/ive-been-working-on-about-8-things-at-the-same\/"},"modified":"2024-02-01T17:28:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T17:28:22","slug":"ive-been-working-on-about-8-things-at-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/27\/ive-been-working-on-about-8-things-at-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4646 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/27\/ive-been-working-on-about-8-things-at-the-same\/attachment\/4647\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/tumblr_ltpz881RGn1qcztaao1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/tumblr_ltpz881RGn1qcztaao1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/tumblr_ltpz881RGn1qcztaao1_1280-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/tumblr_ltpz881RGn1qcztaao1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been working on about 8 things at the same time, which is really not very satisfying. It seems to take forever to finish anything, not least because every canvas I touch lately seems to go through about 6 incarnations before it approaches completion. It&rsquo;s as if they&rsquo;re going through some maddening Buddhist cycle of rebirth, dying an ignominious death over and over, while I have to remind myself not to get attached.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Above, for example, is a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/kaisercaimo.tumblr.com\/post\/10481380635\/sometimes-a-painting-goes-well-sometimes-it-goes\" rel=\"noopener\">stalled portrait<\/a> that is now being swallowed up by abstraction. I felt awfully guilty about this at first, as if I was wronging the model somehow by painting over her. Then I decided I was nothing if not lord and master of my own domain, and I was not going to allow myself to feel guilty about a failed painting festering in the corner of the studio. Now she&rsquo;s being eaten by these little blades of colour and I&rsquo;m a lot more optimistic about the direction the work is going. Still not enlightened, but maybe a step closer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oil on linen (detail).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ve been working on about 8 things at the same time, which is really not very satisfying. It seems to take forever to finish anything, not least because every canvas I touch lately seems to go through about 6 incarnations before it approaches completion. It&rsquo;s as if they&rsquo;re going through some maddening Buddhist cycle of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/27\/ive-been-working-on-about-8-things-at-the-same\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[108,72,156,42,68],"class_list":["post-4646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-abstract","tag-figure","tag-oil","tag-painting","tag-work-in-progress","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4648,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions\/4648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}