blackness or “The Time of the Painting”

oil on canvas
50 × 60 cm

A picture that was started in 2004 persistently looked at me and put my blood pressure up, I did not know what to do with it. With what colour to paint the upper coating of the ground, and then, how to write it out. It dawned on me this summer. I called it “blackness”. I cannot say how long it was coming into being, how long I painted it. Was it those twelve years in which it harassed me, or those seven days of joy when I painted it layer after layer, and wrote it out letter after letter?

(2016; Šibenski list, Šibenik, October 13, 2016)