When is a painting finished? Not when it finally corresponds to something already existing - like the second shoe of a pair - but when the foreseen ideal moment of its being looked at is filled, as the painter feels or calculates it ought to be. The long or short process of painting a picture is the process of constructing such a moment. Of course, the painting’s moment-of-being-looked-at cannot be entirely foreseen and thus completely filled by the painting. Nevertheless every painting is, by its very nature, addressed to such a moment.
— And our faces, my heart, brief as photos (2010@davidhorvitz.com)
