reboot: semi | done

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Something as little as a pencil mark up and to the left can finish a composition.  Much of this painting was planned.  The text and the punctuation mark were linocuts I've had for a while.  The sparse contrasting black and white with the gold is a common color choice for me.  

But the line was spontaneous and final.  Such is composition. When to say "enough".   



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