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Fluid paint plumes, flows, coalesces; settles. It strikes a chord, sometimes shimmering. When it dries, there are opportunities for more layers. A surface emerges. Each artist presented here has a process that engages with paint, then coaxes the voice of the paint into the work.

The Japanese poet, Basho said, "Your poetry issues of its own accord when you and the object have become one – when you have plunged deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there." Basho is talking about a kind of poetic coaxing of verbal language, but there is a parallel for …