Day #1396 | Differences and uniqueness in art world

Lets face It! If paintings could count, they would just say the number one over and over: each painting would insist on its own uniqueness, because no brushstrokes can be like any other, and no picture can duplicate another.

Unfortunately, Photographs, xeroxes, and prints?inhabit a completely different world and practices, where images come in “editions,” “copies,” or “multiples.” A painting or drawing, on the other hand, always counts the number one. It is unique, and so is every mark on it.?

As every artist knows, a single brush-mark can never be retrieved: if it is painted over, it is gone, and no matter how many times the same hand passes over the same inch of canvas, the mark/stroke can never be reproduced.?

Every mark is a new beginning forever.