I look at a painting as being a continuous odd battle of breaking it and fixing it, breaking it and fixing it. ((Emergent Properties)) And then you hopefully leave it at a point where you’ve fixed more than you’ve broken. So, I mean there’s no sort of set routine as to how anything is going to turnout. And it’s quite infuriating in that sense. It’s not — I know for a lot of people they can sit there and they’ll take an image. I mean if your agenda is to sort of mimic photography, if that is what you consider interesting in painting, to mimic photography, then fine, you have a set process by which you can do that. ((Follow My Nose)) And then it becomes the sort of increasing degrees of finer brushes and more time. ((Learn Techniques)) But with what I do, just — I don’t know, every picture, it’s different. And it just goes off on some mad, bloody mission. ((Dentist Chair)) Hopefully I can pull it back to something that people want to look at.

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