At Play Oilbar on panel 20" x 20" $3400 Often the work we have not done seems more real in our minds than the pieces we have completed. The irony here is that the piece you make is always one step removed from what you imagined, or what else you can imagine, or what you’re right on the edge of being able to imagine. Small surprise. After all, your imagination is free to race a hundred works ahead, conceiving pieces you could and perhaps should and maybe one day will. Vision is always ahead of execution, knowledge of materials is your contact with reality, and uncertainty is a virtue. A finished piece is, in effect, a test of correspondence between imagination and execution. And perhaps surprisingly, the more common obstacle to achieving that correspondence is not undisciplined execution, but undisciplined imagination. Art and Fear - David Bayles & Ted Orland To purchase this piece, please contact Viewpoints Gallery. For email, phone, or fax, please click here!