David Abbott

Notes

Topic: Practice

Available realities

July 07, 2022

Thinking about what counts as reality, where fiction and memory meet observation.

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  • Place
  • Landscape
  • Practice
  • Writing

A Certain Day

July 02, 2022

Words to accompany paintings in A Certain Day

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  • Practice
  • Landscape
  • Music
  • Place
  • Nature
  • Writing

Guston

May 21, 2022

“All the possibilities - oh, at last I know. These are mere notions - proven to be so when you start painting again.”

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  • Practice

Agnes Martin

May 02, 2022

Collected Agnes Martin words

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  • Practice

Everything changes

March 31, 2022

A looked-at landscape is already a memory.

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  • Landscape
  • Practice
  • Writing

Whence and whither

February 18, 2022

John Wells on abstraction

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  • Practice

Landscaping

February 17, 2022

Collecting notebook thoughts about landscape and painting

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  • Landscape
  • Practice

Music and Painting

January 21, 2022

Guided by emotion

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  • Music
  • Practice

Artist statement

November 24, 2021

Chucking words at an artist statement that just won't stand still.

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  • Landscape
  • Practice
  • Writing

Cornwall

November 01, 2021

On trying to paint after a visit to St. Just.

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  • Landscape
  • Practice
  • Place
  • Travel
  • Writing

Resonant landscapes

October 22, 2021

Current thoughts on why some landscapes work as starting points.

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  • Landscape
  • Practice
  • Writing