When Is It Finished….

I’ve been contemplating that a lot lately. Why, I can’t completely know unless I know a little bit about the aim of what I want to accomplish and that I don’t always know either when setting out to create a piece. It might sound a little wishy washy (it does to me a little bit) but it’s only because I don’t like to force the direction of the piece I much prefer the piece tell me it’s own story. Yes, the piece (whether it is a painting, collage or drawing) starts to become it own entity in a way that I can’t even fathom the first moment I put paint onto the canvas or paper and so I just have to have my senses open to receiving the story it wants to tell. “So painting, collage or drawing, when will you tell me all of your secrets so I can share them with the world?”