pervasive - the need - to apply paint and color, color upon color, to blend, shift, and move paint, to create and eliminate everything but the experience for edification; the essentials - line, color, fields, zones, context, and perhaps meaning, perhaps nothing more than the experience of time or life with paint and painting; abstracted beyond fundamental surroundings or reality and somewhat superficial as its surface reflects only portions of passion in what is known of life and loss today ... scattered scraps in an arena where the most respected survived ... and why ...
