I pour paint, i scrape it, I wash it, i mix charcoal with it. I try to create the conditions in which certain kinds of things might happen, never knowing exactly what will happen, and then let pigment and water do their thing.
Sometimes I hardly touch the painting; I couldn’t improve on the subtle relationships formed as pigments settle out of slowly evaporating water. Sometimes I throw myself at the thing.
“If you are under control
you lose the danger
of glimpsing an unknown realm.”
— Kazuaki Tanahashi