01/26/2026
This is the kind of experimentation that I find the most inspiring and practical.
If the goal is to copy, you can always mimic...
But if you truly want to make something different, you have to do something no one has done before.
Like life experiments in uncharted territory is daunting.
It's uncomfortable.
And freeing, at the same time.
Almost finished with the whole house art project I am working on, stay tuned for more photos.
XOXO 🕉
Jennifer
Helen Frankenthaler changed the way paint could behave.
In the early 1950s, she began pouring diluted paint directly onto unprimed canvas, letting it soak, spread, and stain the surface. Gravity, chance, and control all worked together. The result was neither strict abstraction nor pure accident, but something fluid, open, and atmospheric.
Her work doesn’t shout. It breathes. Color becomes space, mood, landscape, memory. You don’t “read” a Frankenthaler painting — you enter it.
Often linked to Abstract Expressionism and later Color Field painting, Frankenthaler helped bridge the two, influencing artists like Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland. Yet her work always remained unmistakably her own: intuitive, lyrical, and quietly radical.
Sometimes the most powerful gestures are the ones that let go.
