Horse Painting
When I paint, I let the colors flow freely to form
something that I will eventually underline and refine.
Once, I was working on a painting and the paint had
flowed together to form two horses. One of the horses
only had two legs. My mind instantly insisted on
adding two more legs. But I just didn’t feel right about
it. So, I set it aside. One day, I looked at it again and I
asked myself - What happens if the horse wants to be a
human?
“If I keep focusing on what it must be, I will never find
out what it can be.”
I could have easily told the viewers that the painting
wished to express a horse without front legs and
classified this as abstract. But I could not do that
because even though I was not in the painting, I was
actually part of the painting. This was a two-way
communication.
“If I don’t offer my attention and knowledge, I cannot
expect stories to be pouring out of my paintings.”