back!

it feels so good to feel like myself again! :D YAY! it's been an entire week since i did anything that resembled my normal day-to-day life. it feels fantastic to be getting back on track! i spent the evening painting last night, lost in all my luscious black oil, unaware of the passage of time, and feeling totally driven. ecstatic. and today i'm heading off to the city to sit the gallery. i'll work on my textile project while i'm there and just enjoy this gorgeous, sunny day in san francisco. life is good! BURN, BABY, BURN! ;) come by and say hi if you've got some time.

page by page...

in progress...
a new process...
teaching myself about poetry one slow, painted page at a time.






angela simione, 2009

the words are the white of the paper. it is patient work. it isn't perfect but the method makes me consider each line, each word on its own... it makes me dig in and sniff around and pay close attention to how words want to move...

words want to move like pages, like wings, like a burn.

what is painting?

i suppose it all comes down to how one defines it. it's much more than merely applying paint to a surface. much, much more. if it weren't, it'd be no different than re-painting your bathroom walls or your car or any old thing. there's something else, something more, something hard to pin down and hold still about painting that really doesn't have much to do with paint.

but whatever it is, it's something i try to do every single day.

i swayed back and forth between two big oil paintings for the better part of the day, played with my inks for a bit, read a few poems out of Sharon Olds' 'the gold cell', wrote and researched and wrote some more and then made this-


mama (7)
11" x 7.5"
water-soluble graphite and gouache on paper
angela simione, 2009


number 7 in this series. rolling along pleasantly. :) these little paintings make me happy and fill me up with hope. they feel like day-dreams to me... little gems.

touch...

my mike sent me a tube of expensive paint in the mail: Black Spinel. ohhhhhhhhh. and i have been spreading its luscious body all over my canvas today. mmmm hmmmm. and how. :)