I am taking the artist poet route into Mexico rather than the iphone wielding tourist. This sounds incredibly pretentious and that is exactly how I want it to sound. The longer I stay here the more I understand what kind of paintings I want to make. My feeling is it will be the old mystical Mexico, especially around its landscape. This is the kind of Mexico that is even unfamiliar to me because I have not been looking at it as a painter until now. I am less certain of how to make these paintings but it is in the struggle and invention that interesting things emerge.
Man and maguey. Day 3