MARLèNE MOCQUET: RECENT PAINTINGS This young French painter presents small, vaporous, psychologically charged canvases — occupied by hapless, mostly hybrid beings — that might be called illustrational, not the least for the way their titles narrate very specific events.

She thought about the color black, the nature of blackness, and the in-betweeny shades therein.

The Voyage is kaleidoscopic composite of dream-vision, ideal journey, literary testament, adoxography, and mock epic.

I forgot to save my work, and I had to start over.