Are You Allowed to Do This?

Are you sure?
Well, now, let me get out the rule book and check.
That’s an imaginary exchange. I ask the question, are you allowed to do this, when there’s a splash on a painting and the painting feels finished. It’s a rhetorical question, since everybody knows the answer. What I meant when I first asked the question, months ago, must have been obvious. I think it might be the tone of my voice when I say those words. No student has ever said, no we’re not allowed to make a splash and let the paint drip. The answer is yes. YES! And yet, the questions needs to be asked over and over again.

Painting by Keren Vishny, oil on canvas, ~36×24. 2014
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