The Fountain 2018

Joshua Flint made this painting called *The Fountain*, with these watery blues and whites, it's like he was feeling his way through a dream. I imagine him brushing on the paint, trying to capture something just out of reach, a kind of haunting. The way he's layered the colors, it's not about perfection, more about digging into the unknown. Look at those figures, bent over as if they're searching for something. I wonder what Flint was thinking when he made this? What were these men looking for? Maybe he was thinking about lost moments. The white brushstrokes kind of stand out against the blue, it's like a flash of insight. It makes me think of other painters like Gerhard Richter, who also play with memory and ambiguity. Artists are always talking to each other, you know? Each painting is part of this big, messy conversation about what it means to see and feel. The beauty of painting is it never tells you what to think, instead it embraces the questions.