“artists don't own the meaning of their works” -Roberta Smith
“you don’t have to understand the narrative, it’s the voice that is important” -Jerome Silbergeld
“how to in” is the twin of “how to out”, go figure. i love to abstract words, to focus on the different subtle meanings and contexts they can have. There is no definite meaning, but with these two i was thinking about breathing. That the tittle is so short i think reflects how focused and refining i was in the painting of the image. Both of these pictures were worked and reworked quite a lot before they were finally done.