Why Paint?

"I am comfortable...here, I see, not what I imagine, but what is there.

"I have made art this week, and last...drawing, sketching, painting...on the floor, on paper, thick and durable enough to sit upon, which I did,as I marked and blended and portrayed...the small as though it were large, the ignored as if it were important, the shy escaping things because they are the marks of our having come this way.

"This is private, resolute, and secretive. This is a whisper.

Who hears?"