Deliberate Imperfection

The art of dealing with mechanics and chaos.

Jackson Pollock. Blue poles. 1952. Oil, enamel, aluminium paint, glass on canvas. 212.1x488.9cm. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Purchased 1973. © Pollock-Krasner Foundation/ARS

I’m a perfectionist. Half-way between the normal and neurotic types. Actually, not that half-way.

I see it as a gift. It helps me in shaping a solid vision of everything I do, and to love details. Sometimes, it leads to excellent results. Sometimes. But most of the time, those results are small grains of a shore swept by…