"Brushed Pale 5"

Another minimal painting. This one really aggravated me and I am not quite sure why. I wanted to keep using as few brush strokes as possible, but for some reason today that made me really tense. Sometimes when I think about a painting too much--try to make it spectacular and full of tons of meaning, I over think the painting and stifle my creativity. And then I just become more frustrated because I am frustrated.

In spite of my frustrations over this piece, the idea of minimalism and deconstructing a painting still fascinates me. This whole line of thought has been inspired by Piet Mondrian, who took deconstruction to the extreme. I do not want to go as far as he did, limiting myself to lines and rectangles, but I like the idea of striping things back and getting at their core--simply.