and possibly much more wonderful

"Art ought to be a troublesome thing and one of the reasons for painting representationally is that this makes for much more troublesome pictures." David Park

Painting: Four Men, 1958. David Park

it's the telling

Writing isn’t just telling stories. It’s exactly the opposite. It’s telling everything at once. It’s the telling of a story, and the absence of a story. It’s telling a story through its absence. Practicalities, Marguerite Duras via le temps perdu (love this blog)

Bathers, David Park, 1954 on view at SFMOMA