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Painting is something from inside myself, I try to be present in my action, but I am led in the similar direction each time I begin a painting, I am in a place between where I stand and a horizon, the unattainable horizon, above and below, present, a what comes is what you just read inner world and something beyond itself. Beautiful

How do you balance living and creating, Jordan?

Perfect Days is such a lovely film and leaves one with positive feelings which we surely need more of these days.

Thank you for these dispatches. I don't miss any. Perfect Days like WIngs of Desire has a relation for me to the teachings of Gurdjieff. Rupert Spira, whose ideas I was introduced by you, deals also teaches ideas. Another film, similar to Perfect Days is Jarmusch's Paterson.

[…the mind] mastering its inner world by mastering something beyond itself…❤

Uff da! That was beautiful in so many ways! Thanks! Such a gift in those words.

happy new year x o x

Jordan! Thankyou so much. The way you read this combined with doing some courses with you adds a wonderful dimension to what Adam Moss is saying. I have the book and I have read it however you added something by reading to us:-)

I agree with him 💯

Look forward to learning from you! I subbed!

I heard creative energy and sexual energy are the same energy. I haven't been able to paint since I've been in love. What are your thoughts on this theory ? Do you think they are the same energy? Ponder it for a while before you answer.

Thank you 😊

Van Gogh is one of my faves, especially the plain air drawings and paintings.

Reminds me of the 2012 when I saw an exhibition of 47 paintings by Van Gogh . As I entered the annex and spotted the first painting, I was overcome with tears and a feeling I had never experienced before. I was totally taken off guard even though images of his paintings always pleased me very much.

The first painting conveys to me that it's raining.

waist my time on a load of speculative bullshit? No Thanks!

Personally I see a few things happening here. An orientation of how it feels prioritized over what it is. A building of image by facets. And again, in my opinion, the rawness of these particular images reveal his dance steps and give insight into what he thinks make a painting both interesting to paint and to look at.

Radical inventions, really?

I don't miss your dispatches. Today I came to this one for comfort, at other times for courage and at others for inspiration. Thank you Jordan.

Thanks Jordon, I love listening to your readings !

Thanks Jordan. Always a pleasure being read to. I feel like a child just being fed food. I love that book. Of course got it on your recommendation. Thanks and thanks again.

Hi Jordan, this is so much better than a podcast being able to spy into your studio! Thank you. Could you please shed more light on Frank scraping down his paintings each day? I have tried to search on line but cannot find info as to why he did it. Surely if you scrape down at the end of the day you take off all the days work? I discovered in my search that Manet liked to do the same thing. This idea is new to me and I am currently scraping month old paint off a painting as I don’t’ like the texture. I am a lover of texture but in this case I think it is ugly and looks over worked. Did Frank do it so that he could work on a flat painting each day do you think?

I really needed to hear this right now

I didn't open that email, but now I will. I realized that I've been wringing my hands about US foreign and domestic prejudices, policies, and policing through every administration for over 50 years. On Tuesday night I decided that it's time for me to pass the worry stick...and focus exclusively on making and appreciating art...in its many marvelous forms. Thanks for the reading, Jordan.

Many thanks Jordan. You are a wise calm voice in all the noise and anxiety.

i understand your emotion but in the end, that is tears running down your face. put some paint on a canvas. stand close and far away. mix up new paint; the color, consistency, and viscosity you want. apply with freedom love and concentration. watch the paint touch the surface, leave the brush and spread over the canvas. this morning I was in that place. it's very satisfying.

Nine years ago I allowed the big orange mess to derail me from pursuing the only things that mattered. Now I’m determined to pursue what matters to help me find the peace of mind required to sustain whatever sanity remains following so many years and layers of personal, political,and global trauma. Thank you for helping me upon this path, Jordan.

Thank you for your YT generosity, Jordan!

Thank you for sharing!

Nice to hear this read aloud! As you know, I was very inspired by your book.

Ohhh, I really like that you mention mind in the skill set that you help develop. It is soo important in the whole process of art making. ❤

Wow. Swimming upstream, assembling moments. Shaping them into a whole. A day reading Berger is a richer day. He resisted well - the dissipation - maybe he figured out death does not belong to us. It’s an affront, and an outrage, a liar. He drifted away from Marxism, like Weil, because it was too small.

Truly felt that. Warm hug sent to you.

I loved this. Cezanne is like our monk.

Dense, but you mark it marvelously less so. And this, “…the physicality of the artist’s work as communicated through the hands shaping reality.” Hands shaping reality! Off to form…

Went to see Morandi. Amazing!

I’m very ignorant to art so forgive me if I am confused what style is this?

Thank you, Jordan. It is inspiring to listen to you read about art and artists. Best line… ”The real business of his (Cézanne’s) life was not to make pictures, but to work out his own salvation.”

I don't feel particularly chilly . . . . so I wouldn't worry about the air conditioner too much 😂 . . . . but thanks for the concern ! Very good reading tonight !

Marvelous, Jordan! I am so looking forward to this opportunity.

I would be interested in joining along. How do we do that?

I love dispatches, no matter where they are from. Namaste.

Hope you feel better soon. Enjoyed this dispatch . x

Paint has its own logic. Love that. So does lemon sorbet 💛🍋I hope you feel better soon. I’ve gotten a ticket to the reading class and I look forward to it. Thank you for offering it. I’m in Cyprus, EEST, and must figure out the time difference. I look forward to meeting you and the other people.

Hi Jordan! Nice seeing you at home. Good material! Thanks. Hey, I’m crabby too. If you aren’t feeling well, say so. ❤

Wow - a reading group!!! Yes!!!

Thanks for all the thoughts - and the 2 cents! I'll keep you posted about the Reading Group. Looks like there might be enough interest. Are you on the mailing list? Info@jordanwolfson.com

So grateful I found your channel. I've been trying to cobble together what an MFA approach to studio painting focused on abstraction would be, and this is the closest I've gotten, lol. Please keep this video up forever ❤

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I would be interested in a reading group. My 2 cents…it’s all I’ve got. “Being is the practice and that is social and political.” That’s quite a thesis! Does she expound on this? Because I am not seeing the connective tissue between Dewey’s ideas and Jacob’s ideas. It seems like a big leap. Am I missing something? Or is it in fact a big leap? I don’t see how someone reacts to my painting as the social but as the personal. I don’t think I would paint if I saw it as social! I can’t think in these terms social/political. People who talk like this scare me, because it inevitably does lead to coercion, imo. I don’t feel like a teacher when I am painting. I prefer to think in terms of the personal and get to policy, if we must, on that road. But I don’t think one can legislate community or love or generosity or making. I think that’s so very dangerous. It seems like it always leads in the opposite direction. I get that she is trying to get to love/charity/community, which is natural and admirable, but I just don’t see this as the way. I see the personal as the only way. I do relate to what Dewey says though, and I think on some level, perhaps the best level, the purest level, painting, making, is play.