Gallery 04: One Eye

For the most part, I paint blind. I do not look at the paper until I am done. My eyes are trained on the model, following the particular nuances of their particular form as I distill into abstraction the chosen pose.

Born with double vision, my brain chose to accommodate me by alternating eyes. So I look with one eye at a time. One effect of this is that I do not have 3-D vision. It may go some distance toward explaining, on the physical level at least, why I have little interest in the Western fascination with creating devices to show the illusion of depth in order to represent three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional plane.