“On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter” —Rumi
Master’s brush
Loaded and dripping
Flinging paint
The modern artist… is working and expressing an inner world – in other words – expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces —Jackson Pollock
Creating
The labor of love
Free in thrall
My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout —Jackson Pollock
Color squalls
Cascading baubles
Swirl about
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn’t have any beginning or any end. He didn’t mean it as a compliment, but it was —Jackson Pollock
Breaking waves
In all directions
Splashes crash
When I am in my painting, I’m not aware of what I’m doing —Jackson Pollock
Spinning drifts
Flipping or plopping
Dancing drops
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through —Jackson Pollock
At random
Plashes of action
Self-fashion
I’m very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you’re painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge —Jackson Pollock
No likeness
To true perfection
Offended
It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well —Jackson Pollock
Bubbling froths
Popping in profusion
Coalesce
Love is friendship set to music ―Jackson Pollock
Pattering
Perspiration beads
Pummeling
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating —Jackson Pollock
Myriad
Condensing droplets
Mirror dew
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is —Jackson Pollock
Mopping brow
A painter’s drop cloth
Drenched with sweat
On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting —Jackson Pollock
Action art
Working of artist
Wading in
No chaos, damn it! ―Jackson Pollock
On this morning of a “Blood Moon” in progress, like damn fools we present our existential creativity à la Abstract Expressionism, in tribute to the action painting of Jackson Pollock, a brush in the hand of the Master Painter.
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GODSLAUGH.ME 
This series is definitely one of my favorites so far!
❤
David
David 💖
In agreement. Really loved this one.
A many splendored thing. TY, Geo.
I love this post!!! It is so alive and vibrant. Great quotes from a great painter. I am so glad the blood moon inspired you. I found it an experience full of awe myself. We were very fortunate to have a clear night – not that common here in Michigan.
Clear sky
Blood moon
Awed
Thank you, LuAnne. Awed. Yes. Literally. Standing on the moving earth, observing the backlit planet’s shadow painting the moon, feeling the motion, like being the brush.