Within, The Project: Launch

Yeah, I think today's the day. The day that #within needs to get out of my head and into the public.I was asked this morning what this is all about. Each of these posts leads up to what it's all about, or it's a part of what it's all about, these paintings I propose to make with my own hidden information inside of them.There are several experiences, articles, blog posts, tumblr posts, and of course the dialogue around #rank (an event I participated in this past December in Miami) that have factored into what's been on my mind leading up to this #within project. I'm keeping a list of these, and I plan to post a response to each one individually, as it relates with what I'm doing here. I hope to do this in chronological order, based on what is leading to this experience. I wonder if my desire to trace that comes from my imminent participation in @Platea's #treeblog project, where several sources of inspiration are posted on their blog , which people are referencing for making work of their own. That project is about mapping the outward growth of the things created, with the original source material serving as a kind of trunk or root.So in just a minute, I am taking a leap. I'm closing my eyes & I'm about to *jump.*