I realized today that what I'm painting is not a bunch of letters that form a face;
I'm painting a bunch of letters.
My technique has mostly nothing to do with any single technique I have learned to render anything I've painted from a reference, be it a photograph or something right in front of me. I am interpreting computer-created commands into what may well be an arbitrary circumstance.
I have to accept the fact that the patterns of color being created by the letters can be interpreted in any way a person would like. My real intention is to try to paint specific letters in specific places in specific colors. The "illusion" of anything that comes from the placement of colored letters is nothing but a spectacle.
I also realized today that I'm really not painting letters. I'm painting shapes that correspond to the shapes of letters. If I was painting letters, I would be lettering. There is a specific technique to lettering. For example, hand made signs with lettered on words are usually painted using a formulaic technique to create a specific typeface. I don't know the first step of this technique, therefore, I am not a letterer.
I also realized that I'm actually not really painting as well! What I have on my hands is a montage. This piece has more of a relation to a collage I did when I was 6 to paintings I did last month. The shapes I create are overlapped onto each other. The incredibly odd thing about all this is that the glue and what I'm sticking onto the canvas are one and the same: paint.
Therefore, I'm using paint in a very unique way. Therefore I have a very unique painting.
