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Forest  no II (collage) 1954   (1965)

Self Portrait — Ca

Continuum —        (Alphonso Ossorio)

"Right Bird Left"  70x135 (new painting)




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Painting in which matter & spirit - inner-spirit & outer-matter are
inseperable if as miraculous as any
natural phenomen in which
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Painting, for me, when it really "happens"
is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - 
as, say, a lettuce leaf. By "happens", 
I mean the painting in which the inner 
aspect of man and his outer aspects 
interlock - One could go on forever 
as to whether the paint should be thick 
or thin, whether to paint the woman or 
the square, hard-edge or soft, but 
after a while such questions become a 
bore. They are merely problems in 
aesthetics, having only to do with the 
outer man. But the painting I have in 
mind, painting in which inner & outer are inseperable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the [[strikethrough]] ine [[/strikethrough]] inevitable—
then you have the lettuce leaf