Untited Temores 2018

Justin Earl Grant made this watercolor painting, Untitled Temores, with blues and greens, reds and yellows all delicately bleeding and vibrating into one another. I like to imagine Justin hunched over this piece of paper, coaxing these translucent layers into being, watching them blossom and bleed into one another, trying to capture a fleeting feeling. You know? I can almost see him tilting the paper this way and that, letting gravity do its thing, guiding the colors into new territories. There's this one spot, a flurry of fine lines, that feels like a secret code. Look how it sits nestled amongst the washes of pink and yellow, almost indecipherable yet so full of energy. It reminds me that painting is like a conversation between artists across time, each one building on the other's work. Like a painter's game of telephone through the ages. I wonder what kind of world he was conjuring up with these light touches?