Vacations

When you think of going on a vacation, do you think of going somewhere--which by nature of popularity--has people all day within fifteen feet of you?Ever go on a 'vacation' and then realize that there were people all day long within 100 ft of you? Clamoring and yacking?
Now, there seem to be two sets of time; living time, which is family time, drive to the store time, eat food time. And then, art time. The two realities do not mix very much.When I am painting, there are no stores, roads, cars, airplanes. There is no other world. When I paint, I am the center of the order. Order and beauty, beauty and order. More awareness, more assimilative intelligence infuses the second by second discoveries, the infinite minutae in nature and the mere fact that any of us are here at all.Earth, a globe covered by water, is an extreme variant, not the standard. Look at the other planets. And at this rate, it is temporary.Painting merely intensifies the experience of being involved with the world, time and matter, time and place.