I began to be more and more enthusiastic about what had been happening in the early stages of the paintings I had been doing. In those early stages, there was a lot of accident and chance at play. In the later stages, I tended to tie the image down so that those aspects of chance became partly, or fully obliterated.
Now I turned my attention to working on paper, and developing the early stages by working intensely but briefly on each piece, allowing those chance elements to be an integral part of the final image.

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