happy birthday jackson pollock

i'm not sure i really got it until i saw his work in person. it's quite possible i don't really get it now, but i do enjoy it. there is a monumental quality to his work. viewing it, for me, is a near endless process of discovering little portions that seem just right. it's a bit like discovering an amazing tiny detail on flower you never looked at closely enough--that's on a scale so vastly different from the forest it lives in. an amazing tiny detail that makes you smile. he would have been 97.

"Every good painter paints what he is." -JP

so, go paint yourself.