Philip Guston Morton Feldman hair

I saw a statue/bust in a shop window which reminded me of Morton Feldman's hair via Philip Guston:


That's Guston on the left and Feldman on the right:

This is Morton Feldman by Philip Guston:


Philip Guston Friend - to M.F.
(painted in 1978, after their estrangement in 1970.)

Fiddling about on a Monday night

So I was fiddling about with the new painting last night, and added a few little touches here and there:


I know, I know, you can hardly tell at this resolution. You'll have to believe me.

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While I was drawing the images which served as the basis for this painting, I was thinking about Swine Flu and weird undiscovered microbes and fungal spores and so on. When I was painting it the other night, though, I started remembering how when I was a kid I read some WWII war story or something which involved the torrid, insidious dangers of floating mines. I could clearly remember what I had imagined at the time that they looked like -- and that was something remarkably similar to my 'cluster' of 'microbes'. Of course, the real thing is more functional and less fantastic, but there you go.