The other night I started a new painting. It felt good, as it always does when I have spent some time away from the brushes and oils. I am beginning to work with circles and curves, something I have only really thought about in the last year or so. It is freeing in a way. I am intrigued now, as I have been for many years, the hard straight line. My paintings and drawings spilled over with triangles, rectangles, squares. Diagonals reaching back into space or maybe forward. The curved line is something completely different. It is soft. It is organic. Years after working with organic forms using the straight line, I am now thinking about the curved line, which in some ways is the more natural line of those forms. In some ways. There still continues to be much to be said about the straight line and I could never give up the fascination I have with it. It is nice to begin a new relationship.