A window remembered, not seen

Window to Seeing

Two shutters swing open, and what is behind them is not a view but a memory of one. The window is one I saw in Picasso's home in Paris; the canvas waited four years for it. Layers laid down, scraped back, painted again, and the small windows of the facade drawn into the top coat like handwriting.

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Frosted Red SELF

The third painting on one six-foot canvas. A thin red glaze closed it like a curtain; a spray of varnish on one small corner broke the skin, and by the next morning the whole surface had frosted. The painting beneath shows only through the cracks: blue, gold and silver under the red.

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Two books, out now

The Shape of SeeingShort essays on silence, colour, time, shadow and attention, written alongside the paintings. Where does abstraction begin? Not on the canvas, but in the act of seeing.Kindle, paperback, hardcover and audiobook → The Unalgorithmic SelfArt, AI, and the future of human thinking. What in a lived life exceeds its computational description, and why abstraction may be the way back to it.Kindle, paperback, hardcover and audiobook →

• In Authority MagazineInterviewed for the Social Impact Heroes series: how ArtGraph is giving people a language for what they feel in front of abstract art. Read the interview →
• On view at The NewtonEmergent Ground in Red, a 60-inch transformation where red acrylic met a finished oil, hangs in The Newton Narratives exhibition at 300 W. Camelback, Phoenix, through December.
• In conversationWhy Human Thinking Still Matters in the Age of AI, with Kevin Craine on The Digital Transformation Podcast. Listen to the episode →

Paper 3 · Algorithm and AbstractionThe Private RoomOn thinking aloud with AI, without embarrassment, and why the line I now work by is "disclosed, not disowned": let the machine check the work, never let it sign it.Read it on artgraph.co →

The full series →