"it's the same feeling..."

I was just doing some prep-painting of some pieces for our fireplace mantel, and I was reminded of a discussion I had with an Art Prof way back when:

I was working on my Adding Machine painting, leaning real close, with a small paint brush daubing away on the Plus key or something. He asked me "but is that real painting?" I responded "I don't know, but I do know that the feeling I have right now is the same feeling I have when I standing back from a canvas and slapping on these large brush strokes of paint..."
That's how I was feeling when I was applying some primer to the edges of some wood just now.

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