Art of Don DeLeva

Naming a painting is a really hard thing to do especially if you don't know what or why you painted it. When I started, my titles were often as nonsensical as I could make them and then I started to make them try to have something to do with the work. Then they were just dates, then lyrics and poems, honestly I think maybe I have gotten 6 title right. LOL! I feel like titles can lead people in to what you want them to think about your work, but what if you don't want to lead them? Do you just leave everything untitled?

Remember that thoughts can be similar to a limp. Once you twist your ankle.  When most of the sharpest pain was gone your body made temporary adjustments to your balance so you could walk in less pain.  As the pain diminished your leg remembered these adjustments and kept walking that way.  Over a time you had little pain when walking so now you walk with a slight limp, because your leg is to lazy to retrain your walk to the balance before the twist. If you don't like a reoccurring thought, stretch out the twist to regain good balance.   

Ed Pashky In art there can be no direction or method with or without a result. In this way art history can be both limiting and freeing.  It can be limiting in the way that it can assume accepted definitions for mediums that are used. It can be freeing to know the breadth of possibilities within those mediums. Ed Pashky  Ed Pashky Ed Pashky  

It is hard to see the reality that actually is unfolding in front of you. What makes really difficult is when you look at it through the lenses of your physicality, chemistry and symbology. I believe Kant tried to find what reality actually is but only came up with a name for it. What is more important giving it a name or actually proving what it is. Proving what it is would only lead ways to dissecting it then a race to manipulate it from the core.   DEVO, it there any more to say, could you say less or would you be just using less breath to say it?

Since my hand can not physically or mechanically paint at the speed of thought. My mind seems to hold visual thoughts in place on the panel until I can paint them. In physicality and the material world this tends to leave areas of panel unfinished. Most of the time I don't realize I am doing this mental projection. This in turn leads me to believe I am further along the painting then I really am.   It isn't until days after that I realize the painting is unfinished. This result of semi-unfinished work usually brings me to revisiting a painting that I considered  complete. Usually it ends up better then it was  

Painting in progress, 2018, 24"x30" As I paint my mind seems to work before my hand. Thus my hand is always trying to catch up to what I am thinking. So for example, after about an hour of painting my hand seems to be 3 or 4 hours behind what I have actually recorded from my thoughts into paint. My mind seems to see things and then project them on the panel for me to paint. It is almost like I am taking dictation from my thoughts.

Very often, at least 8 times a painting session, my mind tells me what to paint or it dictates a direction to take the paining. Every time I listen to it I end up sanding out the result. The nice part about this process is that it leaves tiny bits of history behind for me to find the truth in. UPDATE: - AI Overview: As of Sunday, October 4, 2026 at 5:46 AM, there have been 6 years, 11 months, 26 days, 8 hours, and 55 minutes elapsed since October 7, 2019 at 8:51 PM. Depending on how you prefer to look at the total duration, it breaks down to: Total Days: 2,553 days, 8 hours, and 55 minutes Total Hours: 61,280 hours Total Minutes: 3,676,855 minutes Total Seconds: 220,611,360 seconds    I am writing this part from the future of the last part to explain the now. I mention the time elapsed above to give you a reference for how long it took me to realize why I was destroying perfectly okay images and not just finishing them.     Remember your math teacher said, "...