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Dec 25, 1970: I'll try to record my thoughts throughout the day and night during what I think might be a long spell of painting, uninterrupted by classes at BMAS. With my first show at Ckg coming up, March 23rd, I feel a tremendous surge of work, effort, determination, creativity welling up, so that all other activity or non-activity is swept. aside. After [[strikethrough]]lunch[[/strikethrough]] breakfast I painted in the liv. room on the floor, with the large canvas (Atlantic [[strikethrough]]Island[[/strikethrough]] Headland, alias Fundy or A Span of Fundy) propped up against the begonia tanks. And now, 6 p.m. it looks very good. A loneliness to that promontory, and strength, and independence.

Also worked on three other oils, all on board: Breaking Into Evening, based on an early casein, purple, brooding, dark; Breaking Into Fog, spirited and surrounded, a wave appears suddenly. And the other, what shall I call it -- Against Yellow Ledges, or Breaking Into Morning? "Radians wave"
Subject matter: how it sustains me.

Dec. 26. "We who are doomed to create." Or, to be sustained by creating. Started at 11 am with a few other activities thrown in for relief. Photographed Island and Stars in bedroom, camera handheld, at the largest aperture and 1/125th sec. To the library on 125th St. The good bright light in the bedroom on a sunny day at noon reveals the flaws of color and surface of some areas, or, rather, intensifies everything on the surface; could this be why my work always looks more colorful, more full of verve, when exhibited in the gallery light? Revised the wave form of Breaking into Evening, and the ledge form of Breaking Into Fog. Still searching for title for Atlantic Island -- got out two books from library, and read about erosion. The sheer magic of selectivity of color, of interval, of placement. Breaking Into Fog, after only half an hour of revision is a hundred times more gripping an experience. I like it now.