Pittenweem Arts festival. Getting ready for the Pittenweem Arts Festival. I'm working on several drawings. They are abstract. I want there to be more drawing rubbed out than the boundaries of the drawing can contain. I want to explore the space left behind when the line has been erased. As usual, I erase anything that hangs about as form or that I just don't like. This is a constant re-evaluating and obsessing. Recently I've been obsessing about wittgensteins Tractatus Logico-philosphicus. I've read it and reread it but I need to read it again ( I've peeked at in in German original which isn't easy since I don't speak german but its the language he used when he created this strange work of modern art so I think it needs to be viewed in that media - like, I want to see the original oil when I look at some work by monet or pollock or some other artist then I might be happy with a photo after that but if I never see the original I never really grasp tru nature of the piece of art) and I've drawn it and redrawn it. I felt there was a sentence missing - the top level sentence - so deided to make it up and include it in one of my drawings. I wrote, "Before We can speak, we must compose free space enough to fit all that is the case." and this is what I have called the collection of work this year in Pitteweeem - Before we can speak.